On 03/15/2010 12:19 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > >> You cut off the portion where I already explained why such a policy is >> inherently self defeating at large. >> > OK, fair enough, you made that case sure. It's just that I don't agree with > that generalization much (or generalizations in general, heh). > Imagine for a moment that you want to encourage a environment that contributors only care about themselves. What if they maintain a package where a bug gets reported and they say, "meh, I don't care about that bug as I don't use that feature. Let me just close it". Would you agree with that approach? Face it, we will have to strive to be less selfish than that and care about the end user experience and put that before our own limited interests. I know you do. Every contributor is also a user of Fedora. You can take care of KDE packages but you are user of a entire ecosystem of software around you (everything from kernel. glibc and upwards) and you would want others to take care of that well enough for you to be able to develop and build KDE or simply just use Fedora. Development in Fedora is a means to enable you and others to do something else and it's not a end onto itself. We all want to do different things, be it development of upstream software or reading emails, it is a tool to help us accomplish all that. If we forget that, we stand the risk of losing perspective and limit ourselves to a very very small niche. Rahul -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
