On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 at 23:59, Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com wrote:
On 2024-06-29 6:14 AM, Mike Simpson wrote:
all the joy of the time that the *amazing* centos team was folded into RedHat has now been poured away
I don't really understand this sentiment. With Stream, the CentOS distribution is much more open, better supported, and more secure than the old distribution was. Red Hat made significant improvements to the process, which improved the software delivered by the project. Stream is a better example of what an open source project should be, and how they should work. And the Integration SIG is one of the most exciting developments I've seen in Linux distributions in a long time.
As an engineer, Stream is a source of great joy!
Because people find joy and reasons to be in a community for different and sometimes incompatible things. New Coke was a drinkable soda, but it wasn't the same as 'Coca-Cola' and so people who found joy in Old Coke didn't move easily to 'New Coke'.. and the same happened later when they brought back 'Classic Coke', people who liked New Coke didn't want to drink Classic. Even decades later, this still comes up as a 'community' split with people bringing it up whenever an office surveyed 'what drinks do we need to order for the coolers'.
Similar things happen when car models change slightly, etc. The vehicle may be still able to do all the things the old one did, but many people will report being 'put off' on those changes. And the changes may bring in new people who are better served by the newer models. [And the same conversations happen where each camp can't understand why everyone isn't feeling the same way they do.]