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An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

king_inuyasha — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:43:27 +0000

I agree about that, but I also see that perhaps there should be a method to allow Fedora to have compatibility with the "rpm5" packages. I can see that RPM will never have a unified community, but it would be nice to have a way to port rpm5 packages back to rpm...

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

roelofs — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:31:11 +0000

I used to run RedHat, way back when.

Heh. Only on LWN... :-)

Greg

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

mspevack — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:35:46 +0000

My sense is that the job is a full-time job

More than full-time, I would say. :-)

When it comes time for someone else to do my job, I would hope that Red Hat's management will consider all variety of people for the job -- both current Red Hat folks and Fedora community folks -- and pick the best person.

If the best person already works for Red Hat, ok. If the best person doesn't, then Red Hat should make them an offer and hire them.

But by all means, look externally for the candidate. Just hire the person once he/she is identified! It's the only way to *guarantee* consistent leadership, handle all the budget stuff, legal stuff, etc.

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

jengelh — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:29:21 +0000

Yes, RPM (rpm.org) should remain as it is now (or even become smaller, whatever) -- keeping the UNIX principle is key.

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

louie — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:32:08 +0000

Max is @redhat.com. (Disclosure: I am temporarily @redhat.com as well.) My sense is that the job is a full-time job, so unless fedora develops alternative revenue sources, it will always be @redhat.com or effectively @redhat.com- one couldn't do the job effectively as a volunteer.

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

vmlinuz — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:58:05 +0000

Yup, top-notch interview. I'm not really a Fedora sort of person, I think - I'm a long-term Slackware user, currently leaning towards Gentoo - but it is good to see that someone apparently sane and principled is doing what is a very important job.

One thing I'd like to confirm - I'd guess the answer is yes, but I'd like to know for sure. Is Max @redhat.com? If so, and leaving the "RH drops Fedora on the floor" scenario to one side, would it make sense to imagine a future project leader being @fedoraproject.org but not @redhat.com?

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

ekj — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:33:19 +0000

You rekindled my hope for Fedora.

I used to run RedHat, way back when. But ended up leaving at a time where it really seemed as if RedHat had no (or atleast little) interest in individual hobbyist desktop-users, prefereing to focus on "Enterprise" needs.

A more independent, more community-oriented Fedora, where RedHat employees no longer "own" all important components would go a long way towards fixing that. If you progress as outlined in this interview, I wouldn't be surprised if I end up back with Fedora in a year or two.

Good work !

No. Cancel that. *EXCELLENT* work.

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

mspevack — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:24:46 +0000

Thanks :-)

An interview with Fedora leader Max Spevack

briangmaddox — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:02 +0000

Great interview. One of the more useful articles about the direction of Fedora. Great job :)