Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Kadischi reached End Of Life
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
dexter wrote:
> On Sun July 8 2007 11:54:44 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> What exactly are you trying to imply?
>>
>> Rahul
>
> Community lead projects should not exist for the sole purpose of getting
> fedoraproject blessing, which is what happend here fedora picks
> livecd-tools kadischi dies a slow deaf.
There might be a number of tools for any particular purpose and we need to
pick one that has active development behind it. Regardless of that, a project
with no contributors is going to die a slow death anyway.
As the guy who first sponsored Kadischi as a Summer of Code project, I'd
like to thank all of the people who worked on Kadischi to make it as good
as it was.
Sometimes a project can be successful not just from a code perspective,
but from what it leads to. Kadischi was the first draft of Live CD tools,
and was directly responsible for (a) the realization that we *badly
needed* some help from Red Hat hands; and (b) the notion that the Live CD
should be a turnkey experience, which led directly to Revisor.
Without Kadischi, and the people who worked on it, none of the rest would
have happened. We wouldn't have a LiveCD creator, and we wouldn't have a
variety of Fedora 7 LiveCDs, and we wouldn't have Revisor.
From my perspective, Kadischi was a dramatic success. But now
there's a
codebase that's better integrated into the whole Fedora build
process, and
better maintained by people who can devote a lot of time to it. So the
new codebase will be what lives on. That's how open source is supposed to
work, isn't it?
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