On Monday 10 August 2009 22:12:41 Ron Blizzard wrote:
Again, what does community input have to do with the mechanical process of turning "upstream" code into a 100% binary compatible distribution?
Nothing, of course. :-) There seem to be only two things such "input" would provide:
(1) the *illusion* that the community is "in control" of the project, while having no technical skill to really enforce this control, and (2) the big *overhead* in the development process which could potentially make it more complicated.
I completely understand why the core devs refuse this "community input". If members of the community want to do something useful, they should simply follow the seven-point outline given in
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-August/080334.html
Best, :-) Marko