[katello-devel] moving to ruby 1.9.3

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 01:08:14PM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote:
> 
> If you don't care about upstream, why bother to have the source open at
> all? Think of the trouble you'd save yourselves.

Noone said they did not care about upstream. People claimed that
they prefer to focus on making upstream's *users'* lives easier by
packaging nightly properly. Which sounds very sane because if the user
does not get across the installation and setup steps of the project,
you've lost both user and potential developer.

Especially in the system management realm where your target users are
system administrators, they have generally standardized on packaging,
and it's the packaging native to the OS because it brings significant
advantages -- you can check signatures, you can verify your software,
etc.

Noone claims that the rock star ruby developer who hated OS-native
packaging has to be the person who does the .spec hacking and licence
due diligence -- anybody from the team can help them or do the
work for them.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat