On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:01:29 AM MST Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > * Having a buildroot called "EL Next" means that Fedora gets in the > > business > > > of composing the development version of RHEL in addition to the > > development version of Fedora. I do not see how this is the job of > > Fedora > > and Fedora maintainers. RHEL should be developed on RHEL > > infrastructure, > > by RHEL maintainers only. > > > That sounds like the exact opposite of open source, to me. The entire > point of this exercise is to do *less* work out of the public eye. The > set of people who would be doing this work behind the firewall are now > going to be instructed to work in Rawhide (and, by extension, ELN) to > prepare for future versions of RHEL. This will also give the community > at large more opportunity to influence the eventual RHEL 9 (and > onwards) content and design. > > So, new issues that are discovered while building for a RHEL prototype > will be far more visible and can be addressed earlier, either by the > community maintainer or the RHEL maintainer working in the Fedora > environment. So, effectively, this is just Red Hat/IBM looking for free labor from Fedora developers? That's how this comes across, at least with that wording. If it's just a matter of allowing development to happen in public, Red Hat/IBM could simply make their repository available publicly. -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ 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
