On Tue, April 19, 2005 8:33 pm, Zane Gilmore said: > Steve Holdoway wrote: >> Not too impressed there. Stuff that bleeding edge shouldn't even get out >> into any kind of public domain. > > I think that you will find that that is how Open Source works. > Development versions of software is put out into use by developers to > work on it and perfect it (in fact it is never really *not* out in > public). > The terms "Open Source" or "Free Software" by definition mean that > *anybody* can work on it. > > If you are downloading a beta or dev version of any Open Source project > then you have to be prepared for almost anything. > > If you want reliable Open Source software only get the "released" or > "stable" versions. > > Regards, > Zane > There's a credibility issue here that I feel you've not taken into account. Fedora is a distribution, and as such is little more than a bunch of third party packages grouped together and managed centrally. The specific software delivered by RedHat is ( in comparison to the functionality offered as a whole ) trivial. The packages involved will have to have been accepted by 'the management' for release. I believe that implies a responsibility for some level of testing and quality control.
As for who can work on a F/LOSS project, that doesn't remove the maintainers responsibility to manage the project! Yes, anybody can work on the project, and submit stuff for release, but their work should never be released to the public before being tested, in some way, shape or form. My $0.02, Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
