Fedora Core to drop openmotif

Posted Sep 8, 2006 1:11 UTC (Fri) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: Fedora Core to drop openmotif by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Fedora Core to drop openmotif

rahulsundaram asserted:

There is no claim of dropping packages anywhere from the project itself.

corbet confirmed:

I based my conclusions on, among other things, this message from a certain Rahul Sundaram, noting the need to "fix or drop packages as necessary."

Was it really necessary to answer with a straw man:

I was just pointing out that by itself pages in the wiki under a personal space do not constitute any official opinion.

Hit dogs bark, don't they? As a reader who was not involved in the discussion and who doesn't even use Fedora, let me tell you: you might have wanted to "just point out". But then you expressed yourself very badly, much more so than Jonathan did in the Fedora case that you complain so heavily about. At least he cited correctly official Fedora messages, if a bit old. Your answer comes around like childish fingerpointing, just FYI, to give you feedback on your communication style.

Cheers, Joachim

Fedora Core to drop openmotif

Posted Sep 8, 2006 7:49 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

The problem with calling people pages "official" is that there are many such wiki pages in Fedora under which we dont track and have half baked project ideas amoung other things. While messages in Rex Dieter's page currently has information that we did discuss, it does not mention that the distribution is dropping any packages either.

I did mention that in a early discussion that we might have to drop packages if they dont compile under lesstif I have pointed out several other mails after that where it was found that it wasnt necessary and one would normally differentiate between developer discusssions and project announcements.

In short, the speculation that caused unnecessary confusion could have been avoided by reading the announcement as well as later mails.