Le mercredi 01 avril 2020 à 12:15 -0400, Matthew Miller a écrit :
I understand the sentiment but would like to tweak it a bit. Rather
than a
tooling project, Fedora is an _integration_ project. We bring
together all
of this software in the world and create polished solutions for
users, and
we make it easy for community members with specific ideas, and our
downstreams, to do the same. That necessarily requires tooling, but
tooling
isn't the heart of the project. It's okay for us to be the integrator
of tooling rather than the owner and creator of it all.
That’s a nice sentiment, but practically, the reason why Debian and
Fedora are not interchangeable, or why @gnome is dead set on creating
alternative toolchains, to “free” itself from distributions, is tooling
and only tooling.
You can not integrate at the level of a distribution without deep
tooling control and strategy. You can not replace the tools without
effectively embarking on a different distribution with a different
contributor set.
I am quite sceptical on how much of this can be SAASed away to a third
party without deleterious long term effects. (I don’t say it is
impossible, but it is a huge gamble).
What I am sure, is that the CPE statement “Gitlab is cool because they
will think about the roadmap in our stead” is a complete
misunderstanding of what makes Fedora tick.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot