Bad-mouthing and hostility

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 10 14:06:04 UTC 2010



On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, susmit shannigrahi wrote:

>> If we have packages in the distro for which we cannot find enough people
>> to test outside of the package maintainer then my question is - who is
>> using it? If so few people are using it then aren't we just wasting
>> bandwidth and diskspace having it around?
>
>
> All the users are not testers. Neither all the users report back bugs.
> This assumption, with all due respect, is oversimplified.

I agree - and in the meeting I noticed it was something worth thinking 
about.


To be clear, fedora has almost no way to get rid of a package if it has a 
maintainer.

So we will likely grow w/o bound.

-sv



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