question regarding Fedora packaging

[Alexander Kurtakov]

On 13:24:10 Tuesday 23 August 2011 Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 22 août 2011 13:42, Alexander Kurtakov a écrit :
> > Nicolas, while this was true things have changed dramatically last year
> > and Fedora is now what JPackage was in the past ...
> > 
> > Fedora might even be the first to ship JBossAS7 - in a true community
> > manner - synced with the rest of the distro :).
> 
> It would be really nice to finally get to this point. Kudos to everyone who
> contributed to this goal!
> 
> > I can continue listing examples but these 2 alone should be enough for
> > everyone to see that the projects are departing more and more and that if
> > you have that different goals you would hardly find common ground.
> 
> As a former contributor to both projects I will say the common ground is
> easy to find; users want stuff to just work and do not care about
> politics. The EE/not-EE separation is quite arbitrary and unfortunately
> too often used to paper over problems that come back with a vengeance
> later.

The only real problem that causes the separation is that the so called EE 
things tend to stay with anciend libs and don't want to move to newer libs for 
various reasons while development tools are eager doing that causing people 
complaining either for shipping too newer or too old version. And with the 
current manpower we took the side of the newer versions, read as we don't take 
care for compat libs but others are free to do so. Yet this is causing a lot 
of disruption but this is the same problem we have seen with KDE4, Gnome3, 
systemd and what not so nothing special but still this is the dividing line we 
see.

> Good pieces of work are used both sides of the fence without
> complains; only incomplete pieces try to pretend they belong to one side
> only.
> 
> So let's just be all friends and work together.

I fully support this and we try to work with everyone that wants to work with 
us (but not giving orders of course ;)

Regards,
Alex