RFE: how to file

[Globe Trotter]

--- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Globe Trotter wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If this is going to be the attitude of Fedora/Redhat, then the devil save
> > Redhat. Requesting an enhancement means having to actually lead the effort?
> > What happened to community support? Besides, why do KDE/Gnome users get it
> "for
> > free" in that case? 
> 
> ... because someone stepped up to do the effort and everybody else get 
> it for free. You do the effort and everybody else will get it for free. 
> That's way the community works.

that's one way, but not the only way. one way is to see if anyone else is
interested, and if there is interest in such a thing. that is what a RFE does.

Note that the F7 respins are completely empty which shows that there is a
problem in respinning there somewhere.....in other words, it may not exactly be
"easy" to follow set of directions.....


> > Rahul Sundaram is the very antithesis of opensource. In an earlier post,
> > following the ESR saga, he suggested that people who file complaints should
> > stop using Fedora. It is hoped that he would go work for MS. Maybe he
> already
> > does so, and his task is to drive people away from Fedora?
> 
> How is asking people interested in something to lead a particular effort 
> themselves antithesis of open source? Quite the opposite in fact. I 
> never said that people who complain should stop using Fedora. Please 
> don't put words in my mouth.

look up your posts: look it up and see if you say otherwise. you said exactly
that in the light of ESR. Not putting words in your mouth since you did not use
them -- you used your fingers...

> 
> Bugzilla RFE's are more suitable for a specific package. General changes 
> are probably better discussed in a mailing list like fedora-devel rather 
> than bugzilla. Btw Red Hat doesn't pay me anything to work on Fedora. My 
> day job is entirely different.

As I suspected.

Trotter:-)


       
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