Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> writes:
By virtue of how boot stuff is handled in Fedora, the community is
incapable of working on it.
Not true. Not at all true.
src.fedoraproject.org permits anyone, *anyone* to send PRs to fix issues
in the boot stack, or any other package. Even without it, bugzilla
doesn't lock down people helping troubleshoot, write patches, work with
upstreams, etc..
Just because you can't build an official version of the package doesn't
mean you can't help work on it.
Fundamentally, this Change is premature unless there's a
fundamental
decision that there's going to be more activity to solve these
problems. You're saying that this will reduce maintenance burden, but
virtually every boot bug I've seen for the last few Fedora releases
have been around UEFI, *not* BIOS. And it's a very real struggle to
get UEFI bugs fixed.
So you've heard that we're overloaded, and you know that UEFI is the
direction the world is heading. Your solution to this is... what, stick
our heads in the sand and ignore that? Just do legacy? We already have
UEFI-only platforms (see also: the mention of ARM you're belaboring), so
that's obviously not going to fly, even if we were willing to, which
we're not.
Be well,
--Robbie