An empty legacy

Posted Oct 19, 2006 20:18 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: An empty legacy by sbergman27
Parent article: An empty legacy

The issue comes down to time and compensation. Do I have enough available free time that I can spend on supporting a legacy software? Does the compensation of good feeling make up for the loss of compensation that I might get elsewhere? [swimming, drinking, dancing, playing with the kid, doing the laundry, etc]

In places where you are going to have to do backports of code, make sure you didn't break anything else, wait for qa, etc... that is a lot of commitment of free-time. I spent 20 hours on just on package doing qa to make sure it didnt introduce problems). In most cases, people do this out of a greater calling ('I am helping the kids..') or for a monetary compensation.

The Centos developers do quite a bit of work daily on making sure that stuff is fed upstream/recompiled correctly/etc. They do it out of a calling and the fact that many of them have consulting businesses that depend on having a stable 'no-cost' distro. Some have other reasons, but all those reasons are compensation to the 10-40 hours a week they spend dealing with a 'recompiled OS'.

The Fedora Legacy does not seem to have this level of compensation and so it has languished. I can only mea-culpa.