On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 01:30:57PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
That is another major concern, that decisions made by Fedora for
Fedora
users depend more and more on input from people (and companies) who are NOT
Fedora users. What makes sense for RHEL and/or CentOS does not necessarily
make sense for Fedora (and for that matter, what makes sense for RHEL also
does not necessarily make sense for CentOS). Fedora decisions should depend
ONLY on the input and needs of Fedora users.
Fedora has huge impact beyond our immediate userbase because we are the
upstream for RHEL, CentOS, and their further derivatives.
Take a look
https://imgur.com/a/58OXYve. This is Fedora EPEL (which is part
of our project!), not the downstreams themselves, but shows just *one*
aspect of that impact. (It's so large that I see I need to figure out how to
tell matplotlib to not shift to e notation!)
I agree that when we make decisions in Fedora, we need to consider direct
users of the OS we make first. But we are also making a system we _want_ to
be useful as an upstream, and taking downstream needs into account is the
only way we can succeed at that.
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
Not the Pope