fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Thomas Janssen
<thomasj at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/28/2010 09:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>> The cynic in me would expect that the people who want something different
>>>> than the fire hose we have now are silently leaving, and those that are
>>>> left are going to say they like the deluge of updates.
>>>
>>> You say that as if it were a negative thing.
>>
>> To me it is.  It's you and people like you that want to shove a ton of
>> updates down the throats of our stable release users (including changes
>> that alter behavior and sonames etc...) that have ruined the Fedora I
>> helped to build. I want my Fedora back, I don't want what you're creating.
>
> Interesting here is that one can say "Leave the project if you don't
> like what we do" (already done in the direction of Kevin Kofler) but
> the offer doesn't count for everybody.
> Not saying you should leave, for sure not. I think you're valuable for
> the project. The same counts by the way as well for Kevin and everyone
> else not sharing your opinion.
>
>>>  It's actually very positive, it
>>> means we have found our niche and set some very specific expectations in our
>>> user base! We should stick to that and not suddenly turn around half-turn.
>>
>> We've found our niche, but chasing away our previous niche (and having
>> less users show up in our tracking mechanism for it)
>
> What previous niche?

Being a fast paced, bleeding edge distro -- what I always expected.

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