[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Be a critique

[Rahul Sundaram]

Aurelien Bompard wrote:

>>Rhetoric: Well, if they are not good enough for the kernel, why should
>>they be good enough for Fedora users?
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>Sure that is the official reason. But go tell that to someone who does not 
>have internet connection with Fedora, but does with Ubuntu/Mandriva/SuSE. 
>He won't think Fedora is a higher-quality distribution, quite the contrary.
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>If a user has to choose between "not working" and "working but could crash", 
>I'm pretty sure he won't hesitate long.
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Long term maintenance triumphs features in both upstream kernel and in 
Fedora. It is important that we recognize that the pace that we move in 
is inherently tied to staying close to the upstream sources. If we 
deviate we will have a bunch of kernel patches that will conflict with 
the new version and we wouldnt be able to release anything till we fix 
those or have people struck up on the old releases because the patches 
havent caught up.  I have had similar questions asked in FUDCon recently 
and it does take a bit more time to explain and everybody who bothered 
to listen to the explanation went away satisfied. This is very similar 
to the way we deal with Winmodems for example.

> But merging a driver in the kernel can take a long time. People with a 
> new
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>USB modem need the internet access as fast as possible.
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Doing the right thing can sometimes mean waiting for the solution to be 
properly done.

-- 
Rahul 

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