Roman covered at least some of my reasoning. I also tend to think it's not a productive use of resources to worry about RHEL/SLES for now when they're largely covered by the CentOS/OpenSUSE work. If RedHat or Novell would like to provide resources for fully supporting Bigtop on their platforms, that's fine, but for now and without that, I don't think that's where we should allocate time and effort.
I'm also not sure if we really need Fedora as a top-level supported platform, but I'm open on that one. A. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Bruno Mahé <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/28/2011 07:59 PM, Andrew Bayer wrote: > >> I'm opposed to mandating support for the commercial distros for now. > >> Theoretically, if we cover OpenSUSE and CentOS, we more-or-less cover > SLES > >> and RHEL as well. > >> > >> A. > >> > >> > > > > I am neither for nor against it, but it would be very helpful to explain > > your point of view. > > Not to channel Andrew, but rather to offer my own viewpoint (and +1 > his comment ;-)): > "If it ain't tested it ain't supported". With the commercial distros > the testing would > have to come from those who can afford the licensing fee. This has its > impact on > the community of the project since at that point we're basically > making it impossible > for enthusiast and volunteers to validate their own patches. > > Thanks, > Roman. >
