Unnanounced migration phase at its end, non-transparency, "open" community project ... (was: No more kernel-source(code) ???)

[Aaron Bennett]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>If you want to build a kernel, there's a well-known procedure to turn
>a source RPM into a binary RPM.
>
>  
>
>
This is the part I'm missing.  Right now, anyone who tries to mount an 
ntfs partition will get a message that says "no nfts support in 
kernel."  If they google this message, it will say "cd /usr/src/linux" 
etc....

If you are going to change this procedure for Fedora Core to something 
like "install the src.rpm, edit a config file and rebuild it etc," it 
should not change mid-release!!!!!!!!!  Doing away with kernel-source 
absolutely should NOT happen until Fedora Core 3, so that it can be 
completely documented.  And not with an appendix or a mailing list 
archive posting or an article on a third-party website or anything short 
of a real document that's posted on fedora.redhat.com.

If RedHat is going to continue to ship default kernels on a 
user-oriented "community supported" linux distribution that lack crucial 
functionality for a large percentage of your target audience, you've got 
to make it clear how to enable this stuff.  And I'm not saying you 
won't, or that great document is not in the pipes or anything like 
that.  I'm just anticipating the FLOOD of bad reviews that a Fedora Core 
distribution which lacks /usr/src/linux will generate, that's all.

- Aaron Bennett




-- 
Aaron Bennett
UNIX Administrator
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering