On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Lane, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we should be doing education, but not for the package maintainers. > We should try harder to inform our users that they shouldn't used distro > maintained packages, and we should explain why.
I'm not sure I buy this. Why is MediaWiki so special that it can't exist inside of a package? Is MediaWiki such a special piece of software that it's impossible to build a good package? I think user education is going to be even more futile than package maintainer education. The allure of running a system like Debian or Fedora is the ability to have pre-vetted software running in a configuration designed to work as part of a system. I'm not here to start a debate about whether they are successful in achieving that, but it's clearly a popular enough notion that an education effort to counter that probably won't have much of an impact with anyone beyond the Slackware community. +1 for package maintainer education (as frustrating and unproductive as it might be thusfar) Rob _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
