On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What are your thoughts on the reason given? RPM had one feature that >> was needed. But from what I've heard/read from others, RPM is lacking >> many other features (better compression methods for example). RPM has >> been (seemingly) pretty stagnant. > > > I do not trust technical laypress articles to be accurate as to > motivating prioritizes for any decision. Nor should you. We have the > ability to have an open transparent dialog with Moblin, and we should > not react to the interpretation of an article writer who is looking to > attract eyeballs. > I have come to expect technical laypress articles to > be..sensational...and to note the most controversial of statements > because they are controversial and not because they are the most > important. I would not hold up The Register as a bastion of > journalist integrity. I find, like most technical laypress, that > articles are highly editorial in nature, and are not designed to be > unbiased accounting of 'facts' or anything resembling investigative > reporting. > > Until Dirk or another Moblin member is actually communicating directly > with a Fedora community representative, who is looking to understand > the Moblin prioritizes that underlie their decision making, I'm not > going to assume the article accurately portrays the fundamental > decision making process Moblin has gone through for moblin 2.0. Some > decisions were made to move to basing Moblin 2 off of the Fedora > kernel..that's the only thing I'm taking away from that article. > Beyond that, I view the rest as subtle spin on the part of the > Register staff to sensationalize the announcement. Especially the bit > about RPM since it was not a direct quote attributed to Dirk. > > -jef Fair enough. I await better information. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
