On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:03:33 -0400 Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Perhaps. But it's a far cry from: "Here's a poll we did that asked X and Y% of people said they didn't like it" vs "Die developer! I hate you" > Anyway, while an 8 character lowercase letter number combo was > considered too weak, sizematters was considered sufficient. I'm not sure I follow this? > 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? Well, if we are still talking about anaconda initial password behavior, it only affects people installing from the gui, not kickstart users. Also, there's a way to customize it (for both), and also you can change it to whatever you like after you install. I'm not sure this was "disliked by the more experienced". > > 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? Please be carefull of your quoting. I didn't say those things. ;) > 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. I don't see the similarity here, but ok. Anyhow, I likely will stop replying to this thread unless theres specific things I can answer. I have tons to do. ;) kevin
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