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Sometimes context is more important than content

Sometimes context is more important than content

Posted Jan 13, 2009 2:20 UTC (Tue) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587)
In reply to: Sometimes context is more important than content by jspaleta
Parent article: A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows (New York Times)

Canonical is leveraging a large pool of unpaid labor in the Ubuntu community in an effort to create a sustainable business.

Just like Red Hat, de facto managing Fedora, largely for the purposes of making a beta for RHEL (in spite of all the smoke and mirrors in an attempt to make Fedora appear as an "indenpendent" distro).

(Disclaimer: I use Fedora and contribute to it. My frustration is with the freewheeling attitude which comes to non-QA'd updates that break systems. The likelihood of this happening on RHEL is much lower, and I sincerely wish Red Hat would apply the RHEL QA process to Fedora).


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Sometimes context is more important than content

Posted Jan 13, 2009 6:34 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Well, with the majority of package maintainers being non-Red Hat volunteers, that wouldn't be Red Hat's decision. Within the Fedora space, it would primarily be the job of Fedora's QA team and FESCo but I think before asking for RHEL's QA process, you would do well to understand what it is. For one, I don't think it would fit at all

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