[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:33:41 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> My proposal was clear: start the project when somebody has volunteered
> for each of the packages that are in @code and @base (and maybe other
> comps groups, I don't remember exactly). And keep a page with the
> packages maintained such as not to give wrong expectations.

Be careful with a project based on promises. Somebody might volunteer to
maintain a package, but leave the project already prior to the first
important security-fix due to lack of time or because of more important
obligations. Learn from Fedora Legacy's fate. Not enough commitment from
the target group. Too much bureaucracy for the few people who prepared
updates [= a slow review process in bugzilla even for small patches copied
from RHEL, lack of trust, all contributors had to wait for reviews,
bottle-necks in the build'n'release process]. With every week a security
update had to wait somewhere in a review ticket, some more people
(including contributors) left the target group.