A few tidbits:
- thanks to Dag and others for having the discussion all over again on the user-oriented fedora-list. Burying this stuff on the development side doesn't enlighten user very well.
- I had really hoped that Fedora would inspire a more debian-like community around Red Hat. It seems like there's a lot of interest in this, but also a lot of historical grief and bad blood. That's encouraging and saddening simultaneoushly. There's a lot of good work being done out there. I hope that folks will put the time into "making it official" so that the various cool repositories aren't "lucky" finds. RH/Fedora/yum/rpm have so much going for them. I think some more cooperation will make it a permanent fixture of IT.
- CPAN and Debian provide very good examples of doing what we're trying to do here and doing it very well. Someone from one of those camps might be willing to moderate discussions between the competing parties so that something good could be achieved. I'm sure those folks would be willing to answer questions about how they got past various problems.
-- </chris>
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)
