On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:46:58AM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
This is roughly true, although "downstream" RHEL makes its own decisions about many things. If you (Mark, or anyone else) would like to make this different in the future, getting involved with Fedora Server is a good way to do so.
However, to describe the Server List as an active forum for discussion would be somewhat overstating things. I have not received anything
I didn't describe in that way. In fact, it *isn't* that. It's a mailing list for working on the Fedora Server edition.
from it as yet in December and the total volume of traffic on that list in November was very light.
I'm sure it will pick up as we get further into the Fedora 24 cycle.
I am not sure in what way you envisage additional involvement is to take place.
It's an open source project. There are a lot of ways to be involved.
From your concerns, doing early testing and providing feedback on
system-wide features from a server perspective is one way. Or simply doing QA in general. You could also help develop server roles matching needs in your environment — that's a particular feature I'm hoping will come from Fedora through RHEL to CentOS.
I have been bitten by things done in Fedora that only have any use on a laptop and that should never have been allowed into a server distribution. But I cannot see how I would have been aware of them until they manifested themselves on equipment under my care. By which
^ right, this.
time it is rather too late to influence the decision to include them.
Well, not if you get involved early. That's the point.
If you don't *want* to, that's fine, but there's only so much complainy cake that you can have and eat at the same time.