On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:22:42 +0000 (UTC), Kevin Kofler wrote:
it was overreaching bureaucracy which killed Fedora
Legacy (e.g. excessive QA requirements, paranoia such as not trusting
Bugzilla's authentication mechanisms, instead requiring GPG signing of Bugzilla
comments, which raised the barrier to entry), not lack of interested
developers.
Well, if there had been many "interested developers", they could have
simply appeared as boycotters of GPG clear-text signing in bugzilla
while at the same time offering update candidate rpms and reviews.
Hasn't happened IMO.