Le 2019-07-22 10:22, Miro Hrončok a écrit :
Personally, I wish we had spent less engineering time in
infrastructure on Modularity and more on the contributor UX :(
It’s not just Modularity. Modularity is just a symptom. There is
something deeply broken in the Red Hat / Fedora interface.
RHEL made Red Hat fortunes. It’s what justified the billions IBM paid
for it (RHEL is the only Red Hat product where Red Hat completely
dominates the market, even the best other offerings, like OpenShift, are
just one among many).
And Fedora is RHEL’s future.
And yet what do we see ?
Highly-visible Red Hat investments on the desktop, where the focus is on
creating flatpacks to deprecate Fedora as soon as possible. If you read
the marketing messages you’d think Silverblue was the only Fedora today
and rpm packaging a thing of the past. Even though Silverblue is
incomplete by design, since it does not want to address anything except
desktop deployments.
Huge Red Hat investments, in the Java ecosystem, that fail to translate
into an healthy Fedora Java ecosystem. To the point that when IBM wants
its Java guys to join there is absolutely no one Fedora-side to provide
an on-boarding path.
Huge Red Hat investments, in the container ecosystem. And yet we get
told CPE is downsizing its activities, in part because all the new cool
things happen in the container space, contributors want to work on cool
things, Fedora/RHEL is absent from this space, packaging the things
containerized infra need is an afterthought.
As a result of short-term delivery focus, with no work on long term
packaging and maintenance, we're seeing the same explosion of bundling
and forking and API incompatibilities container-side we saw Java-side
before, with the same highly predictible long term outcome.
Red Hat is taking RHEL and Fedora for granted.
There is no business drive to keep Fedora strong and growing, and lots
of internal incentives to work instead on the next best purported
value-added thing. There is no business drive to keep code healthy and
maintenable long term, and lots of incentives to invent band-aids like
modularity, to contain the rot some more till it’s someone else’s
problem. There is no business drive, to create solutions, that can be
deployed and used by joe nobody packager. And without those, there is no
potential of long-term packaging community and no Fedora (let's cut the
fluff Fedora is a lot of things but at core it’s a packaging community).
Well all that happened to others before, and one day the golden goose
will be gone.
And why am writing about this non-Fedora sponsor things? Because Fedora
has stewardship instances, that are supposed to tell those things to the
generous sponsor, and keep it informed of the real state of its
sponsored project. And, they are clearly failing to pass the message.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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