/usrmove?

David Tardon dtardon at redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 07:29:59 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:49:13AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 09.02.2012 01:44, schrieb Reindl Harald:
> >> This is how software development works.
> > 
> > the with every release worser overall-quality shows
> > clearly that software development does NOT work this
> > way over the long
> > 
> > seeing how dramatically the release quality of many
> > opensource software gets lower and lower the last
> > years this is the wrong direction
> > 
> > there were times where opensource software was very careful
> > with 1.0 releases and "we are done" until it really worked
> > because the developers liked to release really good software
> > 
> > these days more and more developers have only the target
> > to release with "hopefully good enough" state, if "good enough"
> > is the target finally nothing will be really good
> > 
> > the target should ALWAYS be perfect and finally it can be
> > considered what is not really needed and were a compromise
> > can be made - if you starting with "hopefully good enough"
> > you will end in poor quality at all
> 
> to say it in other words:
> 
> the overall release-quality of fedora was MUCH better as long
> Redhat controlled it and before everybody could propose hughe
> changes in all sorts of subsystems as long he finds some
> peopole agree and not enough disagreing loud enough
> 
> hopefully if /usrmove is done and the systemd-transition is
> really finished fedora will come back to the quality of
> the days where i started to love this distribution

Note that both /usrmove and systemd have been initiated and pushed
forward by Red Hat people...

D.


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