Nils Philippsen wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 08:54 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Conrad Meyer wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:40:42 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 10:23:05 pm Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>> Let me try an analogy: How do you handle defects/malfunctions with
your
>>>>> car?
>>>> Did a bunch of hobbyists from around the world build your car by
>>>> communicating over the internet?
>>> Have you ever seen an open source car?
>>>
>>> The Fedora "car" manufacturer is the "fedora community",
assembling it
>>> from "upstream" components.
>>>
>>> Ralf
>> That's the idea, opensource behaves completely different from a car
>> manufacturer.
> Wrong. It doesn't.
I don't think we have the power to (nor would we want to) force upstream
to do certain things in a certain way, for ridiculously low prices and
"no we won't pay you on delivery" but 3 months later. The relationship
between us and upstream is significantly different from a car
manufacturer and its suppliers.
I am talking about "customer"<->"manufacturer" and
"manufacturer"<->"component supplier" relations.
Wrt. this the relations are not any different:
* manufacturer buys parts at supplier.
... Fedora "buys-in parts from upstreams".
* in case of problems. customer contacts "point of sale" (garage/car
dealer), point of sale processes request
... Fedora users contact Fedora/RH BZ, ...
What Kevin proposes is equal to demanding car drivers to
a) First identify the defective component
b) Then to identify and contact the component's supplier
This procedure is ridiculous.
Ralf