On 08/28/2010 09:40 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
I know it's not a comfortable thing to deal with, I know I'm
not super
happy about it but Fedora exists almost entirely because RH wills it to.
If RH decided Fedora should go away, it would. You could fork, have a
mess of a time getting infrastructure, and get that fork going but that
wouldn't be Fedora, it'd be something else.
Well my main concern is exactly what you have stated "If RH decide
Fedora should go away it would" in other words "You exist only because
we allow you to exist"
The former is a pretty strong statement the latter is my own
interpretation of what you just stated.
We tried to turn Fedora into an independent legal entity with
multiple
stakeholders and there was almost 0 support in terms of funding for it
(Google: Fedora Foundation). Bottom line, when Red Hat tried to give
Fedora to the community, the community wasn't there to take it. All you
can do is trust RH to do the right thing, know we'll make mistakes from
time to time and know that those of us that were volunteers that have now
been lucky enough to be hired on to do it full time (myself included) are
looking out for Fedora's best interest, not a paycheck.
Times change and people
with it and I'm willing to put money were my
mouth is. So let's separate the infrastructure to a neutral ground,
let's find a good place to host the community on. I don't have much to
spare but I'm willing to give it all I got it's not like I have not I've
invested far to much of my time and other things in the project so far..
JBG