Am Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:23:28 -0400 schrieb "Michael K. Johnson" <johns...@rpath.com>: ... > I think it's time to propose a change. > > Because I'm rPath's Director of Operating Systems, in charge of > rPath Linux, this may come as a big shock, but perhaps I'm the one > in the best place to say this: rPath Linux is not the right base > OS for Foresight. rPath Linux is a great OS for the purpose for > which it was built, and delivers great value to rPath's customers > for building server-oriented application stacks that include a > versioned operating system -- in fact, it is based on demand from > those customers that rPath has concentrated on doing incremental > improvements to a stable OS base rather than new OS versions. > The development model of rPath Linux is too divergent from the > development model of Foresight to make it an appropriate long-term > base for Foresight. ... > I want to be clear that part of what I'm proposing is that Foresight > be built on a *binary import* of Fedora into a Conary repository, ... > It would also mean that Foresight would be *rebased* to every > new Fedora version. ... > I'd love this to be worked as a cooperative relationship with the > upstream project. I see this as symbiotic, not parasitic -- the sort > of thing I would have wanted to encourage when I was the Fedora lead. > > Am I crazy?
I'm not answering that :) But I think we should at least (no matter how crazy you are) discuss that on our next coucil meeting, after Antonio is back from vacation. In the meantime, I'm reading your mail again, because I don't have much time right now... Mark _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
