On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:14:06PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > Check the thread. After identifying that fedora-usermgr is not liked > > by "probably" the majority around here it the issue was "escalated" to > > be handled "upstream" in Fedora. If we had a quick voting here, we'd > > be past this issue by now, while now we're waiting on something to > > happen in Fedora-land. That's what I mean by being stalled. > > A quick voting here wouldn't mean anything, as I said in another place > in the thread. There are other contributors that will certainly > contribute to EPEL that are not there, among them major Fedora > contributors that have relevant technical expertise on that subject. > EPEL is barely existing, lets not pretend there is allready a community > in place. OK, so if we don't exist, what exactly is then our mandate here? Why is there any traffic on this list? This *is* the part of the Fedora community that *cares* about RHEL and EPEL. And there were invitations sent to various Fedora lists where contributors were invited to join up. > The Fedora community is really existing. And also the majority isn't > necessarily relevant. I have seen people being wrong against a > consensus because their use case was different and they had have > more experience on a subject. If you don't trust the majority how will you get to some decision at all? It's either a majority's call or a benevolent dictator's. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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