On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:22:42 +0000 (UTC), Kevin Kofler wrote:
it was overreaching bureaucracy which killed Fedora Legacy (e.g. excessive QA requirements, paranoia such as not trusting Bugzilla's authentication mechanisms, instead requiring GPG signing of Bugzilla comments, which raised the barrier to entry), not lack of interested developers.
Well, if there had been many "interested developers", they could have simply appeared as boycotters of GPG clear-text signing in bugzilla while at the same time offering update candidate rpms and reviews. Hasn't happened IMO.