On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:16:36AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Basically, we're missing out on an important new feature and shipping less > featureful live images than we could for purely political reasons. :-( The reasons are purely practical. If upstream development is targeting upstream kernels then we're either stuck with whatever version of the patchset happened to apply to the kernel version that we're shipping or we have to backport the upstream code. The former means that someone has to spend time backporting upstream fixes, the latter means that someone has to spend time backporting the entire code. Couple that with Squashfs's traditionally pretty dreadful userspace compatibility and you've got a large quantity of work that would be the responsibility of the kernel team. If there's someone with extensive experience in maintaining a Linux filesystem who wants to maintain this code in Fedora then it's worth having a discussion about it, but otherwise there simply isn't enough manpower available to do a proper job of looking after the code. That's not politics. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
