On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

dexter wrote:
On Sun July 8 2007 11:54:44 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
What exactly are you trying to imply?

Rahul

Community lead projects should not exist for the sole purpose of getting fedoraproject blessing, which is what happend here fedora picks livecd-tools kadischi dies a slow deaf.

There might be a number of tools for any particular purpose and we need to pick one that has active development behind it. Regardless of that, a project with no contributors is going to die a slow death anyway.

As the guy who first sponsored Kadischi as a Summer of Code project, I'd like to thank all of the people who worked on Kadischi to make it as good as it was.

Sometimes a project can be successful not just from a code perspective, but from what it leads to. Kadischi was the first draft of Live CD tools, and was directly responsible for (a) the realization that we *badly needed* some help from Red Hat hands; and (b) the notion that the Live CD should be a turnkey experience, which led directly to Revisor.

Without Kadischi, and the people who worked on it, none of the rest would have happened. We wouldn't have a LiveCD creator, and we wouldn't have a variety of Fedora 7 LiveCDs, and we wouldn't have Revisor.

From my perspective, Kadischi was a dramatic success. But now there's a
codebase that's better integrated into the whole Fedora build process, and better maintained by people who can devote a lot of time to it. So the new codebase will be what lives on. That's how open source is supposed to work, isn't it?

--g

--
Greg DeKoenigsberg
Community Development Manager
Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
"To whomsoever much hath been given...
...from him much shall be asked"

--
Fedora-livecd-list mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list

Reply via email to