The end of the Fedora Foundation

The end of the Fedora Foundation

Posted Apr 6, 2006 22:51 UTC (Thu) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
In reply to: The end of the Fedora Foundation by pizza
Parent article: The end of the Fedora Foundation

The key to what I was saying was that it's not _Linus's_ employee's who work on the kernel. It's employee's from RedHat, IBM, Novell etc who work on the kernel.

This affects how work is done. Linus doesn't say, "Bob, you work on devfs. Steve you work on preemption." Everyone decides for themselves what to work on. Sometimes the community can decide that some areas need more focus.

Obviously, Debian is a community effort. So it can be done.

When Fedora first launched some people hoped more developers would join the Fedora community and maintain packages. For example, Abiword was completely broken in rh9 and it caused the Abiword developers a lot of support headaches. If they could just distribute their own RPMs through the Fedora project maybe they could have avoided that.

It didn't turn out that way.

These days if Abiword was broken the developers would hopefully notice it before it went gold and file a bugzilla entry. So it's an improvement from before at least...

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