On 11 August 2016 at 10:00, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/11/2016 01:08 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Given that Greg DeKoenigsberg quite familiar with both communities what's
> is his
> take on the Fedora community being forced to take the Red Hat Ansible pill
> in
> Fedora? What benefit does he see coming from this effort ( if any ).
Just to be clear: this isn't an order coming down from Red Hat. Quite the
opposite, actually. Numerous members of the audience at the Flock talk on
the
state of the Fedora Server chimed in about it and suggested it. It seemed to
make sense, so we approached Red Hat's Ansible folks about it and they're
willing to work with Fedora to get things working.
I just want to point this out because it really is important to understand
the
direction this came from.
That makes no sense unless those server WG members are protecting their own
interest or partnership with Red Hat and it's products ( It too much of a
coincidence with Ansible, which just so happen to be Red Hat product got
discussed over puppet or chief or all three of them ) as opposed to be
looking at the community at whole from a neutral broader perspective.
Let us look at a simpler dynamic that doesn't need us to deal with
corporate conspiracies that are putting down the people.
Most of Red Hat OS products are written in Python and have been for 18
years. This has a double effect in that a lot of the programmers at
Red Hat are python saavy AND a lot of the people who have taken up
RHL/Fedora/RHEL are more attracted to python solutions than they are
to other languages.
This is part of the reason that the various ruby, erlang, and other
'stack' SIGS are smaller in Fedora than in some other OS that has
focused more on that language. Most of the people who are interested
in those languages are working in OS and solutions which are more
'polarized' towards that language.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.