Le vendredi 01 septembre 2006 à 02:28 +0530, Rahul a écrit : > Thomas Canniot wrote: > > Did I miss something, or RH CTO has problem with Fedora first Myth ? > > > > http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/news/2006/08/25/195490.htm?p=ica > > > > "We're convinced that there is a better way to develop software, so what > > we did is we blew up the notion of an Alpha and we use Fedora as an > > alpha." > > > > Followed by > > "The engineers are goaled on not just producing enterprise quality > software, but driving it through upstream in terms of the community. > > In the early days it was about providing a version of Linux that is > differentiated somehow; instead it's now about how do we participate in > the upstream projects through Fedora. > " > > I send this over to Max Spevack and we had a discussion with Brian > Stevens and others in the Fedora Board about this already. I think what > is being said is very much right but the choice of terminology in the > middle is obsoletely bad. > > However it's always a good idea to read things in context. For one, this > was a live interview and the question was "where is the alpha for > RHEL?". From the perspective of Red Hat Enterprise Linux development > there is no alpha release for it since Red Hat has been investing its > efforts into driving changes upstream through Fedora instead. > > I would read encourage everyone to read the full interview instead of > choice quotes. > > > > What about Spevack 8th question in his interview on /.? > > > > Where do we stand ? > > Exactly where we have stood for a long time now. > > > > > What to say to people now ? > > As I already said in http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/6407.html, > alpha and beta releases are "bad" choice of words because they convey > more than one thing. > > From a perspective of ongoing development, Brian Stevens is right but > they also have some amount of negative tones associated with them due to > perceived impact on the quality or robustness of what Fedora itself is. > > > One thing : thanks a lot. > > > > It was no fun for everyone involved. We will to have collecting work on > saying things without the negativity. Apologies if you that put you in > a tight ring. > > Rahul > I lose bits of my temper as Fedora is being insulted on the most popular French Linux website. http://linuxfr.org/comments/749231.html Everybody is working very hard on this, as you know. It is just deeply frustrating. Thanks for your reply, i'll have a tea in my fedora cup to calm down. -- Thomas Canniot http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasCanniot
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