Ten years of Fedora

Ten years of Fedora

Posted Sep 23, 2013 19:42 UTC (Mon) by luya (subscriber, #50741)
In reply to: Ten years of Fedora by torquay
Parent article: Ten years of Fedora

Yes, but this comes too often at the cost of breaking things, on the levels of API, ABI and the User Interface. It seems Fedora is using "first" as an excuse to treat its users ("tech hobbists" in Red Hat speak) as guinea pigs. (Parallel installable Gnome 2 and 3? No, that'd be too much effort to do things properly. Let's just chuck it over the fence and see what sticks.)

We are all guinea pigs regardless the operating system otherwise nobody will report bugs, give feedback to improve newer features and changes. When Gnome announced their focus on Gnome 3 and provide the source of Gnome 2 so community can maintain as they please, nobody stepped up right away until year late after Gnome 3 was released. The message is clear right in front of readers, yet some people managed to overlook it. The past is done, let focus to the present.

The largest block of contributors are Red Hat folks, and they also get to steer where Fedora is going (by virtue of putting in the most resources). It's directly in Red Hat's financial interest to get people to test stuff out before putting into RHEL.

Those Red Hat folks came from different backgrounds from Fedora Project itself, Debian, Suse, Mandriva or other companies/communities where they can apply ideas.

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