Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 16:29:41 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:31:56 +0100
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Why not? One could imagine that somebody steps up to package the stuff
>> needed by the old firewire stack? I don't know that issue very well,
>> but I can imagine people wanting to fix things in fedora if they are
>> annoying them.
> 
> 
> Also, there is a /huge/ difference between "I can package this!" and "I
> can be responsible for all the bug reports regarding this, and help to
> transition folks using this to that, and help improve that along the
> way."

This is the philosophical issue - but it applies whether you support 
backwards compatiblity or not.  In the now diverged firewire juju thread 
there is a comment:

  "Awesome, we definitely need more help. Neither krh nor I is able to 
spend quite as much time on juju as we'd like right now..."

Of course "stuff happens" and things aren't ever going to be perfect, 
but why does a fundamental change go in at the device driver level 
without providing a way to revert to the previous version unless there 
is at least some expectation of having the resources to fix the new 
problems that will almost certainly show up?

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    Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell at gmail.com




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