FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

[David Nielsen]

søn, 22 01 2006 kl. 14:53 -0700, skrev Don Springall:
> My oh my,  I though I was never going to make it through all the posts on 
> this subject.  Might I suggest someone set up a survey question on fedora 
> forum on "install all" , to gage how important this is to the community 
> overall.  It does not seem all that great an idea to me but if the majority 
> of the community likes it, that message can get passed along via the forum.

If we voted on everything, like a direct democracy, Fedora would indeed
never get any where - The various people' varying ideas of how things
work best would cause a massive amount of redesigning and
reimplementation with every complaint and vote. What's next we vote on
desktop of choice, well what's to say that the people who vote are even
representative of our users. Most people don't even care if they are
running Fedora, they just want a desktop that works, must less would
they care enough to vote on every single aspect of things.

This is not ancient greece, some of us do have better things to do than
govern the distro. Think of the community counsel and the Red Hat
engineers as representatives working to the best interest of the
majority - the community are still welcome to provide input in cases of
strong disagreement but in the interest of getting things done - try to
trust people with education and experience suitable for this kind of
development once in a while.

Bogging the project down with endless votes is in nobody' best interest,
even if case of disagreement - remember in by far most cases change is
for the better and in the case of this one there is even functionality
retained to do highly specialisted installs for those who need it.

I try to look at this practically, I would rather have the distro move
forward even if I disagree with the decision making sometimes - most of
the times I end up realising I was wrong once I try out the change in
real life anyways. It's still free software, I can just hack it myself
if I want to to revert the change.

- David

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