-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Now, in Fedora, we're very lucky; the Fedora Infrastructure team, >> which is fairly well divided between Community and Company >> resources, is absolutely top-notch. > > As a self-admitted "Red Hat apologist," there is no end to the > demonizations I hear of Red Hat's "overriding decision making" on > Fedora. Rumors fly about and when I hear them, I repeatedly find > myself saying, "oh, that makes sense because of ..." of which I > "just become the target," etc... ;) > >> But the recent misfortunes of Ubuntu (and the less publicized >> misfortunes of Gentoo) are a stark reminder that we must not >> become complacent. There, but for the grace of God and a >> vigilant FI team, go us. > > There is no guarantee there will not be compromise of Fedora, let > alone even Red Hat, resources on the Internet. That's just fact. > In fact, the worst thing is to be compromised and not know about it > (let alone under attack and not mitigate it before it reaches the > state of compromise). > > But one thing I don't think I'll see is that it is the result of an > overlooked process, poorly considered implementation or some lack > of "due process" or, more directly yet, "due enforcement" in the > Fedora model. Nay-sayers be damned, while it's not perfect, I > consider it to "be the standard." > > In fact, just yesterday I had to explain to someone how the core > approach and balance of community-company in Fedora is no different > that what I saw in Red Hat Linux prior -- from the submission, > test, release, etc..., including the build and security approaches. > Fedora has just become a more formal, more open, more transparent > enabler to the community, which is what I had always hoped it would > become. > > With all that said, the few bits I've been getting on the Conical > side shows they have actually been trying to address this for some > time. And as I said before, Conical will run into more and more of > these community-company considerations in the future. In fact, > just last week I heard my first, "Conical is becoming like Red > Hat." I neither consider that an insult of or a problem with > consideration for the Ubuntu community or development. ;) > > It's Canonical. Not Conical Cheers, Clint - -- Clint Savage Fedora Ambassador Utah Open Source Conference September 6-8, 2007 http://www.utosc.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxeqjfSfYomKiJY4RAr4GAKCL3QPf4ucTrLr2a5jfujDPmO3pSwCfS+h/ XSXdrtF+NzRnjawx8ilY8Ec= =qnx2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
