On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:40:57AM +0100, Karanbir Singh enlightened us: > Heya Phil, > > Phil Schaffner wrote: > >Will come out of my "lurker" closet to chime in agreement with Claire. > >This would seem to be the appropriate list to discuss the philosophy and > >implications of development decisions. > > agreed. > > >I subscribed originally because > >of testing packages and wanting to provide feedback through the > >appropriate channel. I have stayed because of interest in where the > >development is headed and the opportunity to see what the developers are > >thinking in a high signal-to-noise environment. > > > >I also don't get paid to develop CentOS, and don't have time to hang out > >on IRC, but can give a bit back to the community by providing feedback, > >bug reports, and occasional help on the users list. [Although I find my > >opinions are sometimes not shared by the developers, hay, that's what > >community dialog is all about, and I tend to defer to their opinions and > >avoid pointless debates and flame wars. But I digress...] > > you know, I actually appreciate people who make noises when we do stuff > that they do and dont agree with. Isnt that what open source is all > about ? The ability to bring in lots of eyes on simple issues ? We all > gain, all around. > > so please dont stop and/or hold back. Flame wars only happen when one > side refuses to accept the others point of view. I think everyone is > entitled to an opinion, and besides a flamefest every now and then is > also a good thing :) > > > > >Please do consider more discussions on issues such as the yumconf > >approach on this list. > > yes, we know that we should have made a bit of noise about this yumconf > issue before it went out into the wild. I think we've all learn't a > lesson here. > > Just to sort of close out the thread, what has been determined as The Right Way (TM) to manage this? Rebuild centos-release? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263