On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:12 PM, James B. Byrnebyrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
Nonetheless, it is very evident from the heated exchanges on this mailing list that there exists a substantial divergence on which path to take from here. It seems to me insupportable that the past practices of a small coterie of initiates deciding on everything without community input will suffice for the future. If that does become the choice taken then I foresee the community splitting in the future in consequence.
I think your conclusions are wrong. I don't think there is "substantial divergence" in the CentOS community, and I don't think the project is in danger of forking. I also think that if you open up the core development to "community input" you'll have endless discussion, and a degraded product (the "when all is said and done, a lot more will be said then done" principle). Again, what does community input have to do with the mechanical process of turning "upstream" code into a 100% binary compatible distribution?