On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 07:44 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 03:24, Andy Green wrote: > > > I do think if people disagree really strongly about something they > > should ask themselves if they feel strongly enough to do the work. > > Because that's the real meaning of the 'community' aspect, not beating > > on Rahul. > > I don't see how that applies to things that were already there > and the decision was to remove them. Likewise for the > arbitrary decisions to move things to different locations > than the place they have worked for ages which seems to > happen in every release. I understand there's a committee > just for that... ---- of course you realize that if you don't read through the developers list (there is a public archive) and see for yourself what the criteria was for the changes, then you accept someone's characterization as factual and thus, changes often appear to be arbitrary and insensitive when in all likelihood, they were made for good reasons. If you except the notion that Fedora is 'cutting edge' technology, then you would understand the notion that the developers are going to change things for the betterment of the overall product as opposed to not keeping things the same merely to meet people's expectations. The packaging that favors not changing things is the 'stable' or 'enterprise' releases of which Fedora is clearly not. Craig
