On 2/21/07, Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was thinking of the the endless internal wrangling over what to do about the core/extras split, and the years the project has spent failing to engage with third-party developers and repo maintainers. That IRC-session parody of Fedora politics somebody wrote back around 2002 remains as painfully on-point today as it was then.
No, it's not. Every point I've raised in that mockalogue has been largely addressed. Red Hat is not even conflicted by Fedora any more, as it seems to have finally gotten through to the sales drones that people who are using Fedora aren't likely to pay for a RHEL license anyway, so offering Fedora does not translate into lost sales. Lots of problems remain, especially now that the Core/Extras merger is making everyone's life miserable due to the fact that packaging procedures have been changing daily (or so it seems) since early February, but that's a hurdle that is being actively worked on -- once the dust settles, things will clear up and new docs will be written. Everything is far from being "broken" as you imply, and you will find that grass may not necessarily be greener on the other side -- just different flavours of the same weed. -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
