Neal Gompa ngompa13@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