Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

[Jesse Keating]

On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:28, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
>> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-06-12/fedora-
>> meeting.2009-06-12-17.01.html
>
> Ah, there it is, I must have missed it when going through the  
> summaries,
> sorry. :-(
>
> So I'll have to blame the previous FESCo for voting this through with
> practically no feedback, as they observed themselves before the vote:
> 17:14:04 <nirik> has there been any feedback on lists or wiki?
> 17:14:15 * nirik just sees one 'sounds fine to me' comment on the  
> discussion
> page
> 17:14:25 <notting> yeah, haven't seen much
>
> But in any case, I don't think any of us realized the amount of  
> maintainer
> confusion this would cause (I know I didn't or I would have  
> complained on
> the mailing list right when this was proposed). In hindsight, it was
> definitely a mistake. This thread is just one of the examples of  
> maintainers
> having been led to believe they have more time to develop their  
> features
> than they actually do, I've seen several more while sitting in FESCo  
> feature
> meetings. We should fix the mistake at the first opportunity (Fedora  
> 13).
>

Or we should correct this that got confused and move on rather than  
continuing to use our own made up meanings for otherwise industry  
standard words or worse our own made up words.

--
Jes