On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 06:39 +0800, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote: > > And there's the basic fact that no one wants a single point of failure. > > What if the One Bug Tracker To Rule Them All goes down? The entire Open > > Source world screeches to a halt? Who is everyone going to trust to run > > this thing? What if the OBTTRTA gets hacked? > > > > The beauty of Open Source is that people are *not* forced to work > > together. > > > I think the same argument could be made to apply to FreeNode for IRC, > and yet, it seems to be working out just fine for the vast majority of > FOSS projects. So, the "One X to Y them all" concept can theoretically > work for some aspects of FOSS development. However, everyone's (almost, > at least) are already using FreeNode, so we don't really have to > convince anyone. Er, except that most of GNOME is still on GimpNet. That's a fairly large hole. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
