On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 07:42 -0500, Robert Locke wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 06:36 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:07 -0500, Robert Locke wrote: > > <snip> > > > > c) Whether PR are processed by RH employees/Rawhide maintainers or > > others is irrelevant to users. The point that matters to users, is > > seeing a "continuous flow" of their distro, and not having to intervene > > into their system. > > > > I guess the part that I don't get is when will it end? Partially, but the core of it is about avoiding users having to change there repo configuration from "updates-released" to "legacy". > > I.e. it all is a matter of organization, coordination and collaboration. > > One way to achieve this would be RH to silently let the "legacy team" > > take over maintenance, and continue to ship packages through Core. > > > > I'm not sure I endorse "silence". I'd call this collaboration of RH-maintainers with community-maintainers. Also, community maintained doesn't necessarily mean lack of quality ;-) Just sending a notice to fedora-list@ on "legacy took over FC3" and adding a notice to the "News" on fedora.redhat.com could prevent confusion and misunderstands. > > > But let's stop "demanding" and spend more effort "discussing" how we > > > can move forward. > > Well, this would require for the "RH-mountain" to move ;) > > > > We'll have to wait and see if the Foundation represents a real shift or > just a marketing event.... :-) As Andy pointed out, this issue had been discussed on *-devel, but the "mountain" didn't show any indication of moving. Ralf
