On Mon 9. Sep 2019 at 21:45, DJ Delorie <d...@redhat.com> wrote:

>
> "vvs vvs" <vvs...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Ok, now I see that Fedora is just for activists. If I'm not one ofn
> > them then I don't deserve any possibility to use it and should blame
> > myself. Thanks for explaining it to me.
>
> I think you're overreacting a bit, but there is some truth in this.
> Fedora is created and maintained by the community.  You are part of the
> community.  If enough of the community shares your needs, some fraction
> of those will step up to do the work, and you all benefit.  If your
> needs aren't shared by enough of the community, either you need to do it
> all yourself (or pay someone to act on your behalf), or your needs will
> never get met.
>
> This has nothing to do with "deserve" or "blame" - it's just numbers.
> Most people have switched to 64-bit, so most work is done for 64-bit,
> even if not all the 64-bit users are also contributors.
>
> The 32-bit community has shrunk to the point where there aren't enough
> contributors to keep the builds building and the fixes fixing, and there
> are real problems backing up because of that, even if they don't affect
> you personally.  When there are enough problems and no contributors,
> what other choice do we have?  It's broken and nobody is fixing it.
>
> Thus comes the hard part of any project - put up or shut up.  Harsh, but
> it's the root of how things get done - they get done by people doing
> them.  Do or do not, there is no sit-on-the-mailing-list-and-hope.
>
> Back when I started the DJGPP project, I had to do everything myself.
> The community grew and there were lots of contributors.  Then the
> community shrunk until we're back down to 2 people doing all the work.
> Thus is the cycle of projects, but I don't complain that not enough
> people are still using DOS :-)
>
> OTOH you won't hurt our feelings if you switch distros.  Go where your
> community is ;-)
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