On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:56:58 -0600, you wrote: >>As excellent as the Red Hat community is the community has no >>experience in releasing timely bug fixes/security updates because the >>community has not had to do it before. > >Ah, I see your point. Well taken, although incomplete. I mentioned _this_ >Red Hat community, since the lists are what I see most. However, Bugzilla >appears to be alive and well and I do see a bunch of patches and >suggestions and whatever coming from the community, not just RH employees. >So while Debian may or may not have a better community in that sense (I am >not qualified to offer an opinion on that), the RH community is not null >and not ineffective. However submitting patches to bugzilla is not the same as someone applying a security fix, testing it to ensure it doesn't make the situtation worse, and releasing it in a timely manner. Or having someone cover a package while someone is on holiday or while waiting for a new permanent maintainer. This is all stuff that the Fedora project is having to create from scratch and until it is actually up and running and has a period of x months for people to judge how effective it is Fedora is not an option for many people. Do I think it can be done? The theory says yes, and the experience of Debian/FreeBSD/etc say yes. I certainly hope so. But finding enough qualified volunteers can be a difficult task. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
