On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 04/11/2011 10:27 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
If it were me, wiser you are to listen to frogs and crickets. Dag is saying "I want to help but your system is closed".
Just to be clear, Dag isnt saying that at all. What he is saying is that 'I dont want to help by actually doing anything, but I am sure other people do' and his reason for that is that he's done a lot for CentOS in the past. I don't doubt he has, but others have done more and continue to do more.
Eeerrm, that's not been what I have been saying. Nice to know where you are coming from.
I also don't see what the size of my (past) contributions to CentOS has to do with this whole discussion. I would much rather discuss why the QA process needs to be closed, why you think opening up the process will not help fix issues faster (while obviously that's the whole point of Open Source) and what the analysis is of the CentOS 5.6 release taking 3 months to complete.
It's obvious that most of the people arguing in this thread would like more timely releases, especially because those releases take longer and longer.
At the moment four CentOS developers (Karanbir, Johnny, Tru and Russ) are arguing that more transparency in the build process and QA process is not going to help speed up the process and have clearly articulated that they do not plan to make the process more transparent, and that anyone willing to learn, what the project already knows, are going to have to start from scratch.
After Johnny and Tru's disappointing messages, I twittered yesterday as my hope for a true CentOS community is fading. I rather spend my energy on something that is truly Open Source, transparent and honest.
I guess that's what Johnny has been saying all along. There is no wish to change how the project is taking care of things.