On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, James Olin Oden wrote:
Your spending a lot of time defending the status quo, but your not really answering an honest complaint.
What you see as a defense, I saw as an explanation to why it is the way it is. I think nobody argues that it is great the way it is. Especially within the CentOS project because it hurts our effort too.
I've spent a lot of time servicing customers, and when they complain to you, they really don't care about explanations that don't try to help them with their immediate problem.
I am not disagreeing with you at all, but I don't see any solution from you either.
CentOS does not have customers, and nothing should hold you back to implement a solution and offer it to Red Hat. CentOS can even help you with the resources if you want to make a CentOS project out of it. (Although it probably makes more sense as a Fedora or Red Hat project)
But at the moment this is yet another task that requires people's time and I am not sure if we want to dedicate existing CentOS people to such a project if it has an impact on more important deliverables.
The question really is: are you willing to be part of the solution ?
I'd say we need more people to take action, and less people to argue :)
If nobody stands up to fix this, we might see it as a sign that nobody thinks it is important (enough).
Kind regards,