F21 System Wide Change: cron to systemd time units

[Kevin Kofler]

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> With regrets I must say I feel we have grown so fat we are about to
> collapse under our own weight but instead of properly start dealing with
> that within the project, people chose to ignore that fact but instead
> chose to force some future vision of RHEL 8 upon the project under the
> names of .next, products and wg's and constantly attack the solid ground
> what our foundations have stood for and their meaning all those years
> and embark on multiproduct releases based on wrong fundamental
> assumption, without statistical backing up of what they considered being
> the underlying cause for some of their assumptions  and without
> thoroughly thinking things through what needs to be done before being
> able to do that as well as the fact we lack the necessary community
> infrastructure and workflows being in place to remotely being able to
> achieve delivering multiple products in a useful and efficient manner
> based on the resources we have in the project.
> 
> And as WG's slowy turn into tiny little empires fighting amongst
> themselves for components directions and maintenance while the owners of
> those components are scratching their head still trying to figure how
> the .next,product and wg proposal affects them, their maintenance and
> where they general fit into that future vision or simply are ignoring it
> which inevitably will result in them suddenly finding themselves being
> slapped by reality and waking up from their slumber when it finally does
> hit them.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm not seeing much future or vision in Fedora and it's
> direction anymore and the fact is that I'm failing to convey what needs
> to be fixed in any useful and meaningful way and manner, with the end
> result being that I'm not being heard and at the same time being
> powerless in fixing things that need fixing within the community. makes
> me part of the problem not the solution for the project and those that
> still believe in it and the direction it is taking.

I somewhat share your feelings about "Fedora Next", it serves no useful 
purpose and only makes things worse in many ways. Sad to see you go, but I 
can't really blame you. :-(

        Kevin Kofler