LWN article about us

[Jim Popovitch]

The way that I read this is quite simply that most ppl don't care about
"desktop" style updates from FL.  Maybe I'm thinking small, but to me
the main benefit that FL can provide is timely updates for server
security related packages.  I personally don't care if openmotif, gtk2,
sox, qt, xpdf, gpdf, etc have bugs waiting to be tested, i don't need
them.  This is why you see lots of emails on php, ssh, zip, apache, etc.
OK, so squirrelmail is in the list below, it's there because it isn't
important enough to someone... thus getting back to my point which is
that things needing testing get tested.  

I don't care  about providing all possible updates for RH73/FC1/RH9,
etc.  To me there is a lot of time that could/will be wasted on
"non-consequential" packages.  I think that FL's best future lies with
providing things the market demands, not *all* things for some distros
that RedHat gives up on.  Determining this will be difficult but
probably still easier than brute-forcing everything.

Just my $.02... flame away. ;-)

-Jim P.

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:53 -0500, Stephen E. Dudek wrote:
> Taking a look at the bottom line at Dom's extremely helpful summary page
> (http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~dom/legacy/issues.txt) seems to tell
> the story:
> 
> Packages that have been verified and should be fully released
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> xpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2186
> gpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2195
> 
> Packages waiting to be built for updates-testing
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> yum - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1604
> libxpm - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2075
> openmotif - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2143
> lesstiff - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2142
> rp-pppoe - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2116
> gtk2 - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2073
> openoffice - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2074
> squirrelmail - http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2290
> qt - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2002
> sharutils - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2155
> sox - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1945
> gdk-pixbuf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2005
> ImageMagick - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2052 (but more?)
> cdrecord - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2058
> cups - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2127
> iptables - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2252
> nfs-utils - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2339
> zlib - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2043
> modutils - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2364
> vim - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2343
> xpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2352
> gpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2353
> ruby - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2007