fedora 7 schedule (was Re: Fedora 7 planing)

[Christopher Blizzard]

Dave Jones wrote:
> tbh, I agree with you. Fedora should not be hostage to RHEL feature requirements.
> Merging Xen was the single biggest headache I've faced in kernel maintainence
> in the last 3.5 years.  Even NPTL against the RHL 2.4 kernels was a walk
> in the park compared to this fiasco.

I agree with this statement in principal, but from I put on my Fedora 
(hat?) I see that Red Hat is still our largest contributor, and will be 
for the time being.  So we do make some sacrifices to help out The Company.

But wrt this particular issue, I see it largely as a question of 
support.  Talking with Brian Stevens, Stein and Tim B they brought up 
the suggestion of breaking it out into its own rpm and making it Red 
Hat's responsibility - not yours.  Keep things moving and if supporting 
Xen is really important then these guys will step up to the plate and 
carry it themselves.

I think that from the standpoint of supporting existing Fedora users and 
for our next release it really does become a question of whether or not 
Red-Hat-the-Company steps up to support it.  They certainly can't make 
it _your_ problem without backing you with the proper resources to 
handle it.

--Chris