On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
js wrote:
If you don't like it .. don't use it.
You don't understand, I think, the meaning of my email: When someone said "Ok, buy a RH license" to end a discussion and don't talk about problems is just not a good approch.
What problems? CentOS is/will be only 3-4 weeks behind Oracle Unbreakable Linux, and 0-2 weeks behind Scientific Linux, in both cases with PAID developers. So about WHAT problems are you talking about?
My mail is not (to be clear) against Centos, but against those who use the "do it yourself" just to shutdown all argument :)
We understand it EXTREMELY well. First of all, just to be clear, I have not contributed to the CentOS project in any measurable way. I did create public repo for CentOS desktop apps and I did create/recompiled 40-50 packages for CentOS in last few years, but no one ever contacted me about it, and MAYBE 2-3 developers ever browsed it.
Having that in mind, I claim that if you do not like how this (or any other open source project) is managed, it's speed of releases or any other aspect, you have 3 options:
- Contribute your time and knowledge to that project.
- Create a fork of the project and contribute your time and knowledge
to that project. 3. After negative response to initial question(s) about things becoming better use it but do not complain any more.
You can hold someone responsible for not making your life better only in the degree of how much you (or someone else in your name) paid him. If he is not paid for it, you have NO MORAL RIGHT to complaint to him (after initial complaint).
You prove my point quite elegantly. I did spend a lot of time promoting CentOS and helped where I was allowed to help, I tried to get people involved in CentOS, did presentations, helped with the wiki, and genuinly tried to solve problems within the project. But things get blocked at the same level, so if you cannot get anything to move from within the project after 4 years, because things always block at the same level and nobody is prepared to fix that, there's nothing really left.
And from the people involved, I am not the only one who does complain, there are people in the CentOS team that have the same complaints (but prefer to stay in the team nevertheless), there are volunteers outside of the team with exactly the same objections who feel disappointed, but still contribute. I have a lot of respect for these people even though you should be able to discuss what's going wrong.
Hence my cynical reply.
If the project doesn't want to change, that's fine, but then don't try to find excuses or attack the messenger. Simply state those goals clearly.