[fab] JBJ considered harmfull

[Rex Dieter]

seth vidal wrote:

> I believe this is more or less what I said at the last fedora board
> meeting.
> Anyone else there feel free to correct me if I'm misremembering it.
> 
> Paul Nasrat is willing to take over our fork of rpm and move forward. We
> just have to make sure he can make it a priority.
> 
> Can we do that?

I don't ever recall Paul saying that (committing to 
supporting/maintaining a forked rpm long-term).  Maybe I just missed 
that (or is senility sinking in already?)...

For the record, I'll be honest, I'm against forking (away from 
rpm.org/jbj).

Sure, jbj is abrasive and in-your-face at times, but I see most of that 
simply as his being protective of his rpm baby, much like you (Seth) are 
of yum (except you're kinder/gentler about it! (: ).  Now, I'm not privy 
to the details of his "leaving" redhat, or the depth of his animosity 
surrounding that, but based on my own observations so far, I'm not (yet, 
at least) convinced that his attitude necessarily precludes working 
*with* him.

And, from a *technical* point of view, I see no reason to fork either. 
The only technical arguments I've heard so far are things like "feature 
X is crazy!", but from my reading of:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/rpm-devel
Most/all of those "feature X's" are optional and/or can be disabled if 
need-be.

-- Rex