On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Panu Matilainen wrote:
I find it kinda funny that people who refuse to co-operate within
policies
and specifications created by the fedora.us community complain about
fedora.us not co-operating with them :-/
Most packagers were fed up even before decent policies and specifications
existed. Even before there was a common infrastructure or Fedora had any
packages committed. Whereas most 3rd party packagers already had more
packages then Fedora currently. This was a very different situation.
How those policies and specifications were made and the atitude of those
in charge towards existing repositories explain why a lot (most?) of
packagers left frustrated. And of course the fact that some of these
specifications made it impossible to be compatible didn't do any good
either.
I don't really understand how the project on one hand hopes/begs existing
packagers to submit their packages and on the other hand treats them
arrogantly and ignores their advice. I also don't understand why the
current negative critism towards the 3rd party packagers will get us any
closer and I was a bit of surprised that Warren had to bring that up
_again_.
I can only hope Red Hat's involvement can change the atmosphere a bit.
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