Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2013-01-02 Thread Erwin Waterlander
Chris Smart schreef, Op 2-1-2013 8:53: On 12/07/2012 11:53 PM, Tomas Radej wrote: One of the results was a conversation I had with a few guys to whom I recommended Fedora as a development environment. It showed me that there's indeed something wrong. While they all said that Fedora's features

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2013-01-01 Thread Chris Smart
On 12/07/2012 11:53 PM, Tomas Radej wrote: One of the results was a conversation I had with a few guys to whom I recommended Fedora as a development environment. It showed me that there's indeed something wrong. While they all said that Fedora's features were brilliant, they unanimously

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/10/2012 05:39 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Which is why I think it would be in every ones best interest if all the RHEL clones ( even oracle ) would unite join our community maintain and support Fedora LTS release instead risk being bitten by any business decision Red Hat either

Re: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-13 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:21 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@znmeb.net wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Le dimanche 09 décembre 2012 à 15:18 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky a écrit : There's no way I can run my laptop on Rawhide - it's dual-booted with

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:21:43 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote: I can only say that at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers 23 steps are shown under Becoming a Fedora Package Collection Maintainer. Some of them are technical and more or less unavoidable (koji,

RE: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread dave . gibbons2
On 09/12/2012 at 10:03 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: MATE IS growing. And MATE developers are starting to contribute to Gnome. :) Dan In the absence of any good reasons *not* to vote for any of the other candidates, and in the face of at least one reason not to vote for you, I'm

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread David Tardon
Hi, On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:45:25PM -0500, Mark Bidewell wrote: I hear you. I will admit I haven't thought through all of the possible permutations. Probably a better criterion would be impact of ABI changes. What I would like to see changed is the fact that, right now (and this goes

RE: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Dan Mashal
Classy. On Dec 10, 2012 12:14 AM, dave.gibbo...@hushmail.com wrote: On 09/12/2012 at 10:03 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: MATE IS growing. And MATE developers are starting to contribute to Gnome. :) Dan In the absence of any good reasons *not* to vote for any of the other

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Andrew Haley
On 12/08/2012 04:12 PM, Arun SAG wrote: Not really! We are already a customer of RHEL. Money is not the problem. We want our users to use the latest software out there but we also want to reduce the upgrade cycle. I don't understand what you're saying. If you want your users to use latest

RE: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread dave . gibbons2
On 10/12/2012 at 9:42 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Classy. I wasn't going for classy ;) I was hoping to make an impact. But obviously falling on deaf ears. If anybody else is reading this car-crash thread, thank you for not voting for Dan Mashal. This lad is clearly not material

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
...snip... I'm going to call this subthread closed... kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 12/08/2012 12:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Completely agree on this one. In my day job we started using Fedora as one of our desktop os. Then support issues and upgrade cycle started giving nightmares to corp IT. They are looking at other avenues now. I really wish there is a LTS

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:20:34PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: are not worth paying support for. I suggested to RedHat that they provide a graceful switch-over to CENTOS in such case: it's possible manually anyway, so it would be a nice gesture to do it automatically for customers who let

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
* Przemek Klosowski [10/12/2012 23:08] : I suggested to RedHat that they provide a graceful switch-over to CENTOS in such case When you are considering migrating from distribution A to distribution B, you're probably better off asking distribution B's

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-10 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/10/2012 09:40 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 04:20:34PM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote: are not worth paying support for. I suggested to RedHat that they provide a graceful switch-over to CENTOS in such case: it's possible manually anyway, so it would be a nice gesture

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2012/12/7 Tomas Radej tra...@redhat.com: Hi everybody. Disclaimer: This mail is written from the position of a Fedora community member. Red Hat has nothing to do with this. For those who doesn't bother reading this - stability vs. innovation rant. Tomas, why don't you just use/recomment

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:04:41AM +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2012/12/7 Tomas Radej tra...@redhat.com: Hi everybody. Disclaimer: This mail is written from the position of a Fedora community member. Red Hat has nothing to do with this. For those who doesn't bother reading this -

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Mashal
Fedora 14 works great still. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Jukka Ruohonen jruoho...@iki.fi wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:04:41AM +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: 2012/12/7 Tomas Radej tra...@redhat.com: Hi everybody. Disclaimer: This mail is written from the position of a Fedora

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Mashal
I dont care. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: Am 09.12.2012 09:57, schrieb Dan Mashal: Fedora 14 works great still. and who the hell is fixing security bugs for your Fedora 14? a osversion with a lot of known security holes can not work great

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread dave . gibbons
Dan Mashal, please please please stop Top Posting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting#Top-posting You'd think someone running for a position on the board would know this by now? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

RE: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Mashal
...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant) Dan Mashal, please please please stop Top Posting! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting#Top-posting You'd think someone running for a position on the board would know this by now? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 02:32:41 -0800 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: and who the hell is fixing security bugs for your Fedora 14? a osversion with a lot of known security holes can not work great by

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Mashal
May I remind you that F14 is END OF LIFE? Sure I'd love for f14 to continue getting updates. But it's not a long term support release. Dan On Sunday, December 9, 2012, Frank Murphy wrote: On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 02:32:41 -0800 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: On Sun, Dec 9,

RE: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread dave . gibbons2
The thread was already screwed. Yes, I know about it. This will be a problem of the past soon enough. Dan You make it sound like you don't usually top post, but in other threads you also top post: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174781.html May I remind you

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 03:30:08 -0800 Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: May I remind you that F14 is END OF LIFE? Sure I'd love for f14 to continue getting updates. But it's not a long term support release. Dan Huh!, Please read your own posts back in order. Regards, Frank -- devel

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Mashal
Sorry if I came off as impolite. It's a bit late here. It's not like I love top posting and getting on people's nerves. Anyways, please continue making assumptions about who I really am instead of looking at my townhall, questionnaire or goals and objectives laid out on the wiki. I'm used to it.

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Frank Murphy
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:04:41 +0300 Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: For those who doesn't bother reading this - stability vs. innovation rant. Tomas, why don't you just use/recomment stable distro? Sometimes, you want innovation + stability. I usually end up with xubuntu for those

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Mashal
make clear that you are the wrong person for any responsiblity people like you are the root cause for many problems in the developemt all over the years Original-Nachricht Betreff:Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant) Datum: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:57:10 -0800 Von

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread dave . gibbons2
On 09/12/2012 at 11:35 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if I came off as impolite. It's a bit late here. It's not like I love top posting and getting on people's nerves. Anyways, please continue making assumptions about who I really am instead of looking at my townhall,

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:12:27AM -0800, Dan Mashal wrote: For example, the same thing happened with Gnome 3 upstream where a lot of developers left the project due to a lack of a real vision or direction. Please don't rely in rant-like blog posts for your source of information. In my

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:31:54PM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: I would also add that if the switch to gnome 3 made enough people leave the project, they would have gone to mate, and afaik, no one coding on mate has a @gnome.org email. In fact, mate do take a lot of commits from gnome : Some

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2012 09:57, schrieb Dan Mashal: Fedora 14 works great still. and who the hell is fixing security bugs for your Fedora 14? a osversion with a lot of known security holes can not work great by definition and so because the 6 months release cycle fedora should also respect the users

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.12.2012 11:32, schrieb Dan Mashal: I dont care. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 09.12.2012 09:57, schrieb Dan Mashal: Fedora 14 works great still. and who the hell is fixing security bugs

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Reindl Harald
in the developemt all over the years Original-Nachricht Betreff:Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant) Datum: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:57:10 -0800 Von:Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com Antwort an: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 12/08/2012 07:52 PM, Rahul wrote: On 12/08/2012 01:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: (my two cents, as someone using Red Hat / Fedora daily since RH5.1, and never stepping up as Fedora packager because too scared by the bureaucracy) Can you be more specific? What sort of bureaucracy do you

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/09/2012 12:21 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: I can only say that at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers 23 steps are shown under Becoming a Fedora Package Collection Maintainer. Some of them are technical and more or less unavoidable (koji, expiring

RE: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-09 Thread Richard Vickery
] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)) On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:31:54 +0100 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: ...snip... in fact speaking of more testing in rawhide, do you run rawhide ? If not, maybe that's something that is part of the problem, and the first step to a solution. IE

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Jukka Ruohonen jruoho...@iki.fi wrote: Quite easy. Ubuntu LTS succeeds where Fedora (and normal Ubuntu) fails. Moreover, extending the support cycle to five years was a brilliant move from Ubuntu. Red Hat and its derivatives do not really compete in the same

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2012/12/9 Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.it: On 12/08/2012 07:52 PM, Rahul wrote: On 12/08/2012 01:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: (my two cents, as someone using Red Hat / Fedora daily since RH5.1, and never stepping up as Fedora packager because too scared by the bureaucracy) Can you be

RE: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-09 Thread Dan Mashal
...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Richard Vickery Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:10 AM To: Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: RE: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)) Hey Dan, In all the given distributions in your post

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: MATE IS growing. And MATE developers are starting to contribute to Gnome. :) Dan So is Cinnamon. So is XMonad. So is spit Unity, for that matter. What *doesn't* seem to be growing is LXDE, and I'm not sure about XFCE,

Re: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:31:54 +0100 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Just to highlight this... I intend to switch my laptop to rawhide and run it and try and gather a like minded group of people to fix things as they

Re: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-09 Thread Michael Scherer
Le dimanche 09 décembre 2012 à 15:18 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky a écrit : There's no way I can run my laptop on Rawhide - it's dual-booted with Windows 8 Pro and Fedora 18. But I do have an ancient crash-and-burn workstation I can run Rawhide on. It's currently dual-booted Fedora 18 and

Re: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-09 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Le dimanche 09 décembre 2012 à 15:18 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky a écrit : There's no way I can run my laptop on Rawhide - it's dual-booted with Windows 8 Pro and Fedora 18. But I do have an ancient crash-and-burn

RE: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Dan Mashal
: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Corsepius Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 9:51 PM To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant) On 12/08/2012 06:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On Fri

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2012/12/7 Tomas Radej tra...@redhat.com: The threat for Fedora is that even in the FOSS, there is competition. Distros are competing for users - users that give back, users that report bugs, or users that are or become maintainers and developers. When the overwhelming response to Fedora is

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread inode0
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mas...@gmail.com wrote: This IS a rant. And this includes a few analogies. Some good, some bad. This is one of the reasons why I chose to run for board. Nobody really knows where Fedora is going. It's like a too many chefs problem. We might not

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Arun SAG
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@verizon.net wrote: I imagine it boils down to money since Fedora=free and RHEL=$$$. Corporate suits will will weigh cost of Fedora support vs RHEL support and decide accordingly. Or if money is an issue use Centos. Not

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Mathieu Bridon
On Sunday, December 09, 2012 12:12 AM, Arun SAG wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7...@verizon.net mailto:clydekunkel7...@verizon.net wrote: I imagine it boils down to money since Fedora=free and RHEL=$$$. Corporate suits will will weigh cost of

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:12:24 -0800, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: Not really! We are already a customer of RHEL. Money is not the problem. We want our users to use the latest software out there but we also want to reduce the upgrade cycle. You CANNOT disturb every developer in a

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 05:12 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : This IS a rant. And this includes a few analogies. Some good, some bad. This is one of the reasons why I chose to run for board. Nobody really knows where Fedora is going. It's like a too many chefs problem. Sometimes

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 17:31 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: In my opinion the vision needs to be changed. It feels like Fedora has turned into Rawhide more than Fedora with 17 and even more so with 18. You mean like people who are pushing features

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 09:32:01AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: In general, adding packages in an update is actually a fairly safe thing to do, as it's very unlikely to disturb any existing setups unless some of those packages somehow provide stuff existing packages might depend on. You have

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Rahul
On 12/08/2012 12:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: In general, adding packages in an update is actually a fairly safe thing to do, as it's very unlikely to disturb any existing setups unless some of those packages somehow provide stuff existing packages might depend on. You have to explicitly

[rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:31:54 +0100 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: ...snip... in fact speaking of more testing in rawhide, do you run rawhide ? If not, maybe that's something that is part of the problem, and the first step to a solution. IE, someone should volunteer, and get enough

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2012 05:31 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 05:12 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : In fact, I never heard anyone complaining about kde is dying while the numbers are much more worrisome : http://www.ohloh.net/p/kde/contributors/summary Maybe that's caused by

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 09:32 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 17:31 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: In my opinion the vision needs to be changed. It feels like Fedora has turned into Rawhide more than Fedora with 17 and even more so with 18. You mean

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 12/07/2012 08:26 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: It underscores the need for the base OS or core to be absolutely as small as possible. FreeBSD provides a good model, small installed system customized with packages/ports. Personally I would like to see a three-level approach: Level 1

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Rahul
On 12/08/2012 01:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: (my two cents, as someone using Red Hat / Fedora daily since RH5.1, and never stepping up as Fedora packager because too scared by the bureaucracy) Can you be more specific? What sort of bureaucracy do you think is avoidable in the current

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2012 17:19, schrieb Mathieu Bridon: You CANNOT disturb every developer in a company to upgrade his box every 6 months. You don't have to upgrade every 6 months. I'm still running Fedora 16 at work because I haven't had time to upgrade finally you have to yes, you can from time

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.12.2012 17:25, schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 08:12:24 -0800, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: Not really! We are already a customer of RHEL. Money is not the problem. We want our users to use the latest software out there but we also want to reduce the upgrade

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Michael Scherer
Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 19:31 +0100, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : On 12/08/2012 05:31 PM, Michael Scherer wrote: Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 05:12 -0800, Dan Mashal a écrit : In fact, I never heard anyone complaining about kde is dying while the numbers are much more worrisome :

RE: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant))

2012-12-08 Thread Dan Mashal
Of Kevin Fenzi Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 10:18 AM To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: [rawhide] (was Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)) On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:31:54 +0100 Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: ...snip... in fact speaking of more testing in rawhide, do you run rawhide

RE: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Dan Mashal
, 2012 10:42 AM To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant) Le samedi 08 décembre 2012 à 09:32 -0800, Adam Williamson a écrit : On Sat, 2012-12-08 at 17:31 +0100, Michael Scherer wrote: In my opinion the vision needs to be changed. It feels like Fedora

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Bidewell
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Roberto Ragusa m...@robertoragusa.itwrote: On 12/07/2012 08:26 PM, Mark Bidewell wrote: It underscores the need for the base OS or core to be absolutely as small as possible. FreeBSD provides a good model, small installed system customized with

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/08/2012 05:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: If we want to solve this we need to release an Fedora LTS release for our and the potential

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/08/2012 05:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My primary problem with Fedora isn't lack of stability, but lack of API/ABI and UI-stability/persistence/sustainability between upgrades. In other words, I can cope with the number of crashes upgrades typically come along with, but the number

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-08 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/09/2012 12:20 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/08/2012 05:51 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: My primary problem with Fedora isn't lack of stability, but lack of API/ABI and UI-stability/persistence/sustainability between upgrades. In other words, I can cope with the number of crashes

Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Tomas Radej
Hi everybody. Disclaimer: This mail is written from the position of a Fedora community member. Red Hat has nothing to do with this. I don't want to start yet another rant saying that everything is broken and we'd be better off if we aped Debian. Absolutely not. I don't want to put blame on

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 12:53 PM, Tomas Radej wrote: Hi everybody. Disclaimer: This mail is written from the position of a Fedora community member. Red Hat has nothing to do with this. I don't want to start yet another rant saying that everything is broken and we'd be better off if we aped Debian.

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Caterpillar
Il 07/12/2012 13:53, Tomas Radej ha scritto: Hi everybody. [...] A Fedora contributor, Tomas Radej From the moment I started using Fedora to now, I installed it on 41 different machines of different owners. The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I upgraded a system from

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Andrew Price
Ah the ol' Fedora stability improvement thread. It must be Friday. Ok, I'll bite. This sort of conversation often comes and goes without much being done. Usually it consists of debates between three camps: 1. Those who see Fedora as an intrinsically unstable distro which showcases and

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 03:11 PM, Andrew Price wrote: Ah the ol' Fedora stability improvement thread. It must be Friday. Ok, I'll bite. This sort of conversation often comes and goes without much being done. Usually it consists of debates between three camps: 1. Those who see Fedora as an

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I upgraded a system from Fedora 14 to 15, that was the upgrade from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. … Fedora community should test big transitions like Gnome 2-3 for a longer period of time

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 03:51 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I upgraded a system from Fedora 14 to 15, that was the upgrade from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. … Fedora community should test big

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 16:47 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/07/2012 03:51 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I upgraded a system from Fedora 14 to 15, that was the upgrade

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:11:31PM +, Andrew Price wrote: Ah the ol' Fedora stability improvement thread. It must be Friday. Ok, I'll bite. This sort of conversation often comes and goes without much being done. Usually it consists of debates between three camps: 1. Those who see

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:53:50PM +0100, Tomas Radej wrote: community, I am seeking support for a movement, both collective and individual, that would improve communication, cooperation and generally the life of Fedora on the most fundamental basis. In case it's not clear, I'm in. :) --

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 04:59 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 16:47 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/07/2012 03:51 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: The unique and most impotant negative feedback I had it when I upgraded a system from

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Andrew Price
On 07/12/12 17:48, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:11:31PM +, Andrew Price wrote: Ah the ol' Fedora stability improvement thread. It must be Friday. Ok, I'll bite. This sort of conversation often comes and goes without much being done. Usually it consists of debates

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Simo Sorce
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 18:13 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/07/2012 04:59 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 16:47 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/07/2012 03:51 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 15:40 +0100, Caterpillar wrote: The unique and

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Mark Bidewell
For example, making it so key applications and development stacks could easily float from one base OS to the next would make it less of an issue when the base OS needs to be upgraded. Not sure I catch your drift here, but it sounds like it could cause API mismatch headaches. It

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/07/2012 06:58 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: I do not care ab out arguing with him, I care to give advice to others (if they care for my advice, feel free to fully ignore). Don't follow that model, it's broken security wise, unless you keep your machine disconnected from the network. In the end

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Edward Mann
On 07.12.2012 14:08, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 12/07/2012 06:58 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: I do not care ab out arguing with him, I care to give advice to others (if they care for my advice, feel free to fully ignore). Don't follow that model, it's broken security wise, unless you keep

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Rahul
On 12/07/2012 03:08 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: In the end if you are going to keep your machine secure et all you have to keep it disconnected there will always be bugs which can be exploited when you are network connected ;) Smiley doesn't change the inane argument. We don't with

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Arun SAG
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.comwrote: If we want to solve this we need to release an Fedora LTS release for our and the potential other user base that don't have to/want to update every 6 or 12 months. Completely agree on this one. In my day job we

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: If we want to solve this we need to release an Fedora LTS release for our and the potential other user base that don't have to/want to update

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Clyde E. Kunkel
On 12/08/2012 12:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: snip Why does there need to be a long-term support for Fedora? Why not just use Red Hat Enterprise Linux? I imagine it boils down to money since Fedora=free and RHEL=$$$. Corporate suits will will weigh cost of Fedora support vs RHEL

Re: Where are we going? (Not a rant)

2012-12-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 12/08/2012 06:07 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: If we want to solve this we need to release an Fedora LTS release for our and the