On Apr 12, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: "aurfalien at gmail.com" <aurfalien at gmail.com> >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >> Sent: Tue, 12 April, 2011 20:10:14 >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dag's RHEL Rebuild Project. >> >> On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Ian Murray wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>> This is really disrespectful to talk about on here. The devs spent >>>> a ton of >>>> their spare time to develop centos, last thing you should talk >>>> about is >>>> starting competing projects... >>>> >>>> Peter. >>> >>> I really don't get this list. The threads I have read on the Xen >>> list suggest >>> there is no problem with a discussion about the relative merits of >>> KVM so why is >>> everything so personal on this list? Something quite unhealthy is >>> going on here, >>> IMHO. >> >> Its not that at all (to me). >> >> Then again the Xen lists don't have ppl whining about a missed rel >> date with personal attaches about leadership. > > I guess people are pretty happy with the way the Xen project is run. > >> >> The guys maintaining Centos have ownership of the project which >> results in a sense of pride and personal feelings about it. > > They have every right to be pride; no doubt a phenomenal amount of > work goes > into CentOS and I don't think there is much/any gripe on this list > of the > quality of the finished article. But of course, pride can be an > inhibitor as > well.. > > >> >> Plus, I think it was the timing of the post regarding DAGs RHEL like >> project. > > Tensions are indeed running high, so yeah. > >> >> There is an order of magnitude more traffic on this list then on the >> Xen list. > > Erm, jury's out for me as to whether that would make a difference or > not. Well, I mentioned this to account for the social aspect. The more ppl who are on the list, the greater the dynamics of the list. I think technology is more about ppl then tech itself so the social dynamic is a very tangible and important factor of it all. - aurf