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[Jesse Keating]

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On 08/12/2010 10:16 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Chris Ball wrote:
>> This should be unsurprising, because the stated objectives of the
>> Fedora project as a whole don't agree with you either:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_projects
> 
> Those same objectives say that Fedora should "be on the leading edge of free 
> and open source technology". To me, this includes shipping a great new 
> technology such as LZMA SquashFS, without waiting for the upstream kernel. 
> "Staying close to upstream projects" isn't without exceptions either. In 
> addition, another objective of Fedora is to "include a wide range of 
> packages", so we should support technologies which allow us to ship more 
> packages on our live images.
> 
> Basically, we're missing out on an important new feature and shipping less 
> featureful live images than we could for purely political reasons. :-(
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

Do you have any sort of proof that it's a "political" reason?  It would
seem to me that our kernel maintainers do not wish to include code that
hasn't been blessed by Linus in our packages.  Doing so has burned us in
the past, and perhaps this code has real issues that are keeping it out
of upstream.  We should not presume to be smarter than upstream,
particularly when the kernel is involved.  The package maintainer
ultimately has control over what does or does not go into their package,
and in this case they seem to be favoring sticking close to upstream as
opposed to throwing in code willy nilly because it looks cool.  Upstream
has a code review process for a reason.

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Jesse Keating
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