Orphaning my Packages (or: RIP, Fedora!)

Mat Booth fedora at matbooth.co.uk
Tue May 27 13:24:16 UTC 2008


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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Brandon Holbrook  wrote:
> I'm happy to report that I'm finally feeing myself of everything Fedora!
>  Starting around a year ago Fedora's red tape and horrible bureaucracy
> started turning me off.  It all culminated with the legendary "No KMODs in
> Fedora" blanket policy on Sept 13.  So obviously when I submitted
> open-vm-tools as a new package 5 days later (I didn't know they passed such
> a ridiculous policy at the time) here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294341, it was rejected.
>
> Since then I've been migrating all my boxes at home and work away from
> Fedora/CentOS/RHEL to other distros and found the move to be very
> refreshing.  Fedora now only lives in a couple VMs here at home for me to
> maintain my packages (a strange bit of irony, since it was Fedora's
> unwillingness to play nicely in a VM that pushed me away to begin with...),
> but I haven't even been doing a good job at that.  Therefore, I am hereby
> relinquishing my responsibilities of everything Fedora, which include the
> following packages:
>
> eclipse-phpeclipse -- PHP Eclipse plugin


I will take eclipse-phpeclipse, since I'm already maintaining one
other eclipse plugin I don't think it will be too much hassle.

- --
Mat Booth
www.matbooth.co.uk

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