On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:53:03PM -0500, Adam Chasen wrote: > With all the distros out there and mac/OS X swallowing a large portion > of people who otherwise might care, a different distro is a hard sale. > It is even more challenging to get contributions when we depend on > unfamiliar tools (Conary/rMake/etc.)
i agree, this is a problem hard to overcome, but we don't need to attract that many people, just a few more to have enough power to keep things rolling. > FL2 proved a distro could be made and maintained with great stability > and amazingly small amount of manpower. It may be better to push the > tooling to other distros, rather than wrapping them. is there a difference? how do you push the tools to other distros without wrapping them? when we build fedora sources with conary, isn't that exactly the desired end result? the rest is showing fedora devs that they can drop rpm now without loosing anything. well, that's a dream, and i would not aim for that now, but if we successfully import fedora it would show that it is possible to switch. and that will raise some eyebrows. aiming to change fedora is unrealistic, but getting spinnoffs to base on foresight instead of fedora, debian or ubuntu, that's an interesting and i believe achievable goal. we just need to show them how much easier it is, and that cases like solusos ( http://fossforce.com/2013/10/solusos-life-happensdistros-die/ ) wouldn't happen with foresight because conary is designed to make spinnoffs easy. > Unfortunately, I > discovered with my love affair with Conary, that "good enough" and > mind share are very difficult to overcome. indeed, but there are exceptions. soulsos is one such example. what he had wasn't good enough. unfortunately he had to realize that being better takes a lot more work. and here is where we can make a difference. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life hackerspace beijing - http://qike.info -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net foresight developer realss.com foresightlinux.org unix sysadmin trainer developer societyserver.org Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/ _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
