On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Gene Delitzoy wrote:
Given the track record with redhat of how often upgrades go wrong, and the fact that such an upgrade requires more downtime, I think a lot of people will worry about that.
Is fedora there to provide a good distro to users, or to exploit users to redhat's commercial benefit?
Is it just me or do others get the sense that some people on this list feel that the fedora developers owe us a stable, easy to use, easy to upgrade, rock solid distro?
Fedora as a community distro is only as good as the community.
Indeed, and it should also serve the community as well. This is the point I was attempting to make
Have you tested the upgrade path? Have you donated money, or time in a meaningful way to make sure fedora has a clear and bug free upgrade path? If not then I wouldn't be complaining about the upgrade capabilities.
I wasn't complaing about what is there now - that's not important, as fedora is just starting out. I was complaining about the proposed paths - people (and I don't know where they stand in the community) were saying "we can't do that, won't do that, shouldn't have to do that, what's the point?" - I was pointing out the point.
As it is, I'd love to contribute to development of the distro, but that'd mean I need a spare machine to do it on, and my financial situation is far from rosy.