-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Les Mikesell wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:31:56 +0100 >> Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Why not? One could imagine that somebody steps up to package the stuff >>> needed by the old firewire stack? I don't know that issue very well, >>> but I can imagine people wanting to fix things in fedora if they are >>> annoying them. >> >> >> Also, there is a /huge/ difference between "I can package this!" and "I >> can be responsible for all the bug reports regarding this, and help to >> transition folks using this to that, and help improve that along the >> way." > > This is the philosophical issue - but it applies whether you support > backwards compatiblity or not. In the now diverged firewire juju thread > there is a comment: > > "Awesome, we definitely need more help. Neither krh nor I is able to > spend quite as much time on juju as we'd like right now..." > > Of course "stuff happens" and things aren't ever going to be perfect, > but why does a fundamental change go in at the device driver level > without providing a way to revert to the previous version unless there > is at least some expectation of having the resources to fix the new > problems that will almost certainly show up? Priorities change, unexpected problems crop up, things take much longer than anyone anticipated, etc. Also, note that a lot of the remaining current issues *might* be resolved by some forthcoming juju firewire patches from the linux1394 git tree, which I'm going to try to get into rawhide this afternoon... David Moore did a lot of excellent work over the holiday break while I was busy not paying much attention... :) - -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhmIEtO+bni+75QMRAjl2AJ9M8GFOcZ7fTn9d2RmSVKysKRrZAQCgnCPC vMvYlg4XRI/WmnSeoieZw48= =2gX1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
