On Mon 9. Sep 2019 at 21:45, DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"vvs vvs" <vvs009@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one ofn
> 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 ;-)
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