On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:23 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
Hi, guys. Jesse and I would like to get an opinion from the desktop
team
on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533553 - the request to
drop PackageKit-command-not-found from the desktop spin.
Jens went ahead and did this unilaterally and Matthias reverted it,
which is understandable, but what we're not sure of is whether Matthias
was worried only about the unilateral nature of Jens' move or whether
you really want to keep command-not-found on the live spin. We'd
probably prefer to take it out, since it's just too buggy: it's a great
concept, but it breaks far too easily at the moment, I've seen it cause
the yum database to be stuck for a long time and someone else on the bug
has seen it peg out all his CPUs. It just seems too fragile to have it
around by default yet.
But we didn't want to just get involved in a revert war, so we're trying
to get an opinion. We're probably going to have to do an RC4 spin and
it's going to have to be within the next few hours, that's our window
for this change; so if you could reply in the next few hours that'd be
great. Thanks!
There's no way to have a discussion about this 'within the next few
hours'. It is weekend, and some people try to have a few hours off on
those...
If you ask me, it is just too late to make a giant stink about a minor
thing. We could have had this discussion after the beta, but nobody
complained then. Now we are post-RC, and suddenly people propose drastic
measures with deadlines of only a few hours.
I've asked Richard to look at doing a 0-day update to fix the more
serious problems.
Matthias