On Wednesday, 06 April 2022 at 13:07, Richard Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 at 11:20, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
> > and on its way out. As it ages, maintainability has decreased, and
> > the status quo of maintaining both stacks in perpetuity is not viable
> > for those currently doing that work.
> Have you tried getting more people involved?
I don't think that's how Open Source works. Realistically the way I
see this playing out is that the people responsible for maintaining
the legacy boot stack will retire the packages,
I thought they would be orphaned, if anything. Retiring seems rather
hostile to the people who still need those packages (which are those,
by the way?).
some well meaning
community people take them over, then everything breaks in an
unexpected way before a Fedora release for some technical reason and
If this change is accepted, then BIOS-based installations will break
and will have to be removed from release blocking criteria because
anaconda will simply not support that use case anymore. That's how I
understand the impact although this is not explicitly written in the
change proposal.
the new package maintainers have no idea how to fix the underlying
issue. Then Fedora QA needs to decide if the legacy boot failure is
actually release blocking. I'm happy to be proved wrong, but asking
someone "have you tried getting more people involved" is neither
helpful nor realistic.
It's helpful to show the change proponents attitude. As a way of "asking
more people to get involved", I'd expect a list of packages the change
proponents no longer whish to maintain and a date when they will orphan
them, since they've stated they're going to do that anyway. Without such
list it's difficult to assess the scope of the work required to maintain
the affected software stack. I don't see any such details in the change
proposal.
Regards,
Dominik
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