On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 19:44 +0000, Tet wrote:
Konstantin Ryabitsev writes:
>> Why did the XFCE packages disappear from rawhide?
>
>Read the last 512 messages sent to the list. Sheesh. :)
You have a point. But at the same time, there are still unanswered
questions. Who made the final decision about which packages were to
go? Bill Nottingham? Elliot? Someone else? What was the rationale
for their selection -- space saving, obviously, but why package A
rather than package B? Although I personally disagree with some
of the choices[1], I don't see anything going that is critical
to be in Core (although see below). But it would be nice to know
who made the decisions, and the reasons they made them.
The Fedora Core Technical Committee made the decisions. That's Cristian
Gafton, Jeremy Katz, Elliot Lee and Bill Nottingham.
I know you're unlikely to accept this but could we go with 'b/c these
guys have been doing this for a long time so trust them'.
Hell, I'm unlikely to accept this but despite what most people think -
fedora is not a place where everyone's opinion is equal. The opinions of
specific people at red hat count for a lot more.
Right now the process is such that getting more say in fedora means
doing more work.
How do you go about doing more work you ask? Step up, and genuinely
offer, you'll find plenty to do.
-sv