On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 02:49:09PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Well, sure, thats the case in any open source project. > You as a user of that project are welcome to try and convince the > people doing work to change things to what you desire. If you fail to > do this, then it will not get done. After a decision has been made to > you suppose more and more queries to change the decision will go well? > Well, though I feel like a troll for being the one to raise this--and it's also causing heated discussion on the CentOS list, that's the point. Maybe, if they realize how many people it annoys, they'll drop it. Anyway, while an 8 character lowercase letter number combo was considered too weak, sizematters was considered sufficient. I think, that like many other decisions disliked by the more experienced, they're going to wind up doing it, and once again, a few people will, when it goes into RHEL, be annoyed enough to leave, but not enough to really affect their business--who wants to change the O/S on 100, or even 5, servers? I think that closing the two bug reports immediately was somewhat premature. > > > > Again, the issue was never "how fast are we getting a policy?". > > The issue was always "what policy are we getting?". > > Or perhaps, why are we suddenly instituting this policy? I believe that I used the analogy last time they tried, of the TSA. It gives some appearance of security, does almost no good, and serves to annoy the vast majority. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
