On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 8:22:00 AM MST Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 11:09, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:26 am, Stephen Gallagher > > <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > For the record, as this directly affects the Workstation deliverable, > > > I will be voting -1 until and unless the Workstation WG votes in > > > favor. > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it's a large set of Change owners, but since only two of them are > > > Workstation WG members, they are not representative of that group. > > > > > > > > Workstation WG hat on: > > > > > > > > I don't think there's any need to vote -1 for that reason alone. The > > Workstation WG has discussed the change proposal at several meetings > > recently (really, we've spent a long time on this), and frankly we were > > not making a ton of progress towards reaching a decision either way, so > > going forward with the change proposal and moving the discussion to > > devel@ to get feedback from a wider audience and from FESCo seemed like > > a good idea. Most likely, we'll wind up doing whatever FESCo chooses > > here, but unless FESCo were to explicitly indicate intent to override > > the Workstation WG, we would not consider a FESCo decision to limit > > what the Workstation WG can do with the Workstation product. At least, > > my understanding of the power structure FESCo has established is that > > the WG can make product-specific decisions that differ from FESCo's > > decisions whenever we want, unless FESCo says otherwise (because FESCo > > always has final say). That is, if FESCo were to approve btrfs by > > default, but Workstation WG were to vote to stick with ext4, then we > > would stick with ext4 unless FESCo were to say "no really, you need to > > switch to btfs" (which I highly doubt would happen). So I don't see any > > reason to vote -1 here out of concern for overriding the WG. > > > > > > > The problem is that the request as discussed reads as "FESCo says use > it for workstation" vs "FESCo has no problem with Workstation saying > they want btrfs" or "FESCo says use btrfs as default". Yes it says > "desktop variants" but only 1 variant really counts and that is > Workstation. So yes, either Workstation agrees to it or it isn't > getting voted on. If Workstation can't come to an agreement on it, > then the proposal is dead. Anything else is an end-run and a useless > trolling of people to see how many rants LWN counts in its weekly > messages. Well, it's not only Workstation that this proposal is trying to throw btrfs on, but the other desktops as well, such as KDE Spin. -- 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
