On Monday, September 9, 2019 12:44:42 PM MST DJ Delorie wrote: > "vvs vvs" <vvs009@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one of > > them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame > > myself. Thanks for explaining it to me. > > > I think you're overreacting a bit, but there is some truth in this. > Fedora is created and maintained by the community. You are part of the > community. If enough of the community shares your needs, some fraction > of those will step up to do the work, and you all benefit. If your > needs aren't shared by enough of the community, either you need to do it > all yourself (or pay someone to act on your behalf), or your needs will > never get met. > > This has nothing to do with "deserve" or "blame" - it's just numbers. > Most people have switched to 64-bit, so most work is done for 64-bit, > even if not all the 64-bit users are also contributors. > > The 32-bit community has shrunk to the point where there aren't enough > contributors to keep the builds building and the fixes fixing, and there > are real problems backing up because of that, even if they don't affect > you personally. When there are enough problems and no contributors, > what other choice do we have? It's broken and nobody is fixing it. > > Thus comes the hard part of any project - put up or shut up. Harsh, but > it's the root of how things get done - they get done by people doing > them. Do or do not, there is no sit-on-the-mailing-list-and-hope. > > Back when I started the DJGPP project, I had to do everything myself. > The community grew and there were lots of contributors. Then the > community shrunk until we're back down to 2 people doing all the work. > Thus is the cycle of projects, but I don't complain that not enough > people are still using DOS :-) > > OTOH you won't hurt our feelings if you switch distros. Go where your > community is ;-) While most users on Intel/AMD based systems are now running x64 kernels, most proprietary software released for various GNU/Linux distros are 32 bit. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
