Re: Modularity and all the things

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On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 04:34:55PM +0000, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> I'd just like to say that I have found this thread very demoralizing. I
> think Randy has valid points and has brought them up far more
> respectfully than I could and I feel like it's being dismissed as
> trolling. I think this has a very negative affect on people's
> willingness to put their opinions out there and is going to lead to an
> echo chamber.

It's definitely gone of the rails, and I'm sorry. I didn't mean for that to
happen. I want to hear people's opinions even if they're dissenting.

But, I still am having a hard time seeing the thing I quoted as a respectful
approach. I avoided paraphrasing before, but I'm going to now, not to
caricature what Randy said but to clarify how it sounds to me and what I'm
reacting to. The message in entirety was:

   I've pointed out a few times that other distros have solved the "too
   fast, too slow" problem. In at least one case, as long ago as 2004. I
   see it as a solved problem and I don't understand why we are trying to
   solve it again.

To, that isn't "hey, maybe you missed an elegant prior art we could adapt".
To me, it seems to say "this effort is a waste of time -- this problem is
already solved".

And mentioning "as long ago as 2004" seems ... well, like I said,
inflammatory.

This is not a respectful way to say this to the people who have put a lot of
*years* into working on this problem and solving it in Fedora. Even if we
take as given that other distros have solved the problem for their users, it
being solved _there_ doesn't directly help us _here_. The work people did to
get us to where we are now _does_.

That's what I take objection to, not the suggestion of additional ideas to
move us forward.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora Project Leader
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