Smolt, Open Implication [LWN.net]

Smolt, Open Implication

Posted Jul 19, 2007 16:38 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: Smolt, Open Implication by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Smolt, Open Invitation

*sigh*. Spelling the point: "it doesn't matter that something's clearly described in a few places if it's not even paid a few words in the very beginning of the announce message." Since it seems like intended for wider audience than those with inherent knowledge of Fedora-related subproject names.

In case you're not sure about this being a point, I can e.g. sort of announce hasher(7) and imply that everyone has already read the manual page to realize how much the projects they contribute to need this software packaged. Here's the link.

PS: the more ranting part was mostly related to F7 release announce which got me wondering if those writing bold stuff ever look around; particularly, there were complete free isolated build systems available ages before Fedora "invented" their own, that is since 2001 at the very least. Don't take it as a personal blame though, it's just a (narrow) corporate mindset. Still Truth Happens (TM). :-)

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Smolt, Open Implication

Posted Jul 19, 2007 16:59 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Fedora folks are already talking to several distributions about Smolt and it has been described in detail many times including this news item. If you aren't yet aware, clicking on the first click would show you what you want to know. Maybe every announcement about it should include a short blurb but no harm done now.

Koji, the new build system in Fedora and has been used in the project internally in a slightly different form for several releases before being opened up and made public. Familiarity is important to those who work with the project and the build system does have several unique features which the project takes advantage of. It builds on existing software like Yum and mock. It is not the first one and probably wont be the last one. It is not specific to corporations to believe that they can get better value in starting a new project. Let the market decide.

The release announcement highlighting the ability to remix and do custom spins of Fedora was related to the tools like pungi, live cd tools and revisor rather than the build system. Slashdot just got that wrong.

See http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing-fedora-7/ for details.