[Test-Announce] Fedora 14 Alpha RC3 Available Now!

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:16:36AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Basically, we're missing out on an important new feature and shipping less 
> featureful live images than we could for purely political reasons. :-(

The reasons are purely practical. If upstream development is targeting 
upstream kernels then we're either stuck with whatever version of the 
patchset happened to apply to the kernel version that we're shipping or 
we have to backport the upstream code. The former means that someone has 
to spend time backporting upstream fixes, the latter means that someone 
has to spend time backporting the entire code. Couple that with 
Squashfs's traditionally pretty dreadful userspace compatibility and 
you've got a large quantity of work that would be the responsibility of 
the kernel team.

If there's someone with extensive experience in maintaining a Linux 
filesystem who wants to maintain this code in Fedora then it's worth 
having a discussion about it, but otherwise there simply isn't enough 
manpower available to do a proper job of looking after the code. That's 
not politics.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org