On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 3:23 PM Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net wrote:
Le jeudi 25 avril 2019 à 20:00 -0400, Christopher a écrit :
Fighting with the "Modularity team", whoever they are (a SIG? a mailing list?, a team at RedHat? ... I don't really know who they are)
Just to be clear: this is not about fighting the Modularity team (or any other team, for that matter). Modularity, Silverblue, RHEL, etc, all assume something to build upon. And this something may be Fedora as we know it today, or something else entirely, I don’t care (much).
Yet there is no public advocate of this something. All the energy is poured in “value-added” endeavours which delegate hard problems to a backbone starved of investments and resources.
This is not healthy or sustainable.
I completely agree.
While I understand that it's more exciting to work on the "new shiny project" (Modularity), the basis we all want to build upon (traditional RPM packages in the "normal" repos, in this case) cannot be allowed to rot, or we all stand on shaky ground.
For example, the Stewardship SIG recently took ownership of around 200 orphaned, now mostly module-only packages - some of which have a dependency tree larger than 2000 (!) binary packages.
TL;DR: I don't think pulling the rug out under a significant portion of the fedora package set (and maintainers) is a good idea, until we're sure that there's solid ground under our feet.
Fabio
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