[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>>>> Is there similar outrage against upstreams as well?  Where is it?
>>>
>>> On this list, it's shouted down.  I commented some time ago about the
>>> rather toxic behavior of the python developers vis-a-vis breaking
>>> compatibility at virtually every release.  You would have thought that I
>>> had urinated in the holy water.
>>>
>>> It's an ugly little wart on the free software movement.  There's nowhere
>>> near the incentive to take care of your user base without a direct
>>> financial gain.  Not, mind you, that commercial ventures haven't done
>>> the same, but the consequences to them are more severe and direct.
>>
>> You don't get to dictate what the upstream project's priorities are.
>
> But it should be something open for discussion, and something considered
> when integrating a package into a distribution and when/if the incompatible
> changes should be propagated.


Have any of your discussions of this nature yielded fruitful results?
If not, your approach is failed, even if the intent is good. In which
case you need to come up with a more productive approach.


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