On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:48 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
A perusal of the contents of both the Fedora devel list and users list does not give one much hope that such a point of view would be tolerated, much less welcomed.
Exactly. They don't care about breakage, only change. In the early days I tried to follow Fedora development and no one paid any attention to complaints about breaking interfaces that other things rely on. I eventually just gave up when they pushed a kernel update mid-rev that wouldn't boot on my (mainstream IBM) test box and subsequent updates were the same. I don't really expect them to care - the people who have something invested in existing components and interfaces have been split out of that community. I just see it as a big mistake to let them control the future of the distribution to people that need stability and ongoing interface compatibility.
One might, however, consider that the CentOS list is a concentration of people that evidently have some status within a number of Enterprises.
I used to try to encourage using more linux vs.Windows here and deployed Centos for infrastructure myself wherever possible because it used to be easier to manage and more stable. But now that I'm approaching retirement and realizing that the current management processes aren't going to continue to work, I think that may have been a mistake.