On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:15 PM Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7 June 2018 at 03:17, Jan Kurik <jku...@redhat.com> wrote: > [..] >> >> [2.1] Justin Forbes: >> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fesco-election-interview-justin-forbes-jforbes/ >> [2.2] Stephen Gallagher: >> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fesco-election-interview-stephen-gallagher-sgallagh/ >> [2.3] Till Maas: >> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fesco-election-interview-till-maas-till/ >> [2.4] Randy Barlow: >> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fesco-election-interview-randy-barlow-bowlofeggs/ >> [2.5] Petr Šabata: >> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fesco-election-interview-petr-sabata-psabata-contyk/ > > > 3 out of 5 candidates as most important feature which seems they want to push > forward encircles Modularity. > Doesn't matter that rpm never been designed in mind to handle cohabitation > packages in different variants. > What now Modularity offers is +1.5y behind original schedule and still in > most of the cases it does not work. > No one points on things like discussion on: > - common specs coding style > - cutting number of %iffings (and use instead SCM branches which git offers) > - cutting legacy tails like still using tons of scriptlets which can be > easily cleaned of remove dependencies on initscripts and maaany more like > this which could make at least @core solid fundamentals other features > - cutting number of dependencies (how many years ago was first discussion > about use --as-needed in linker options?) > - caring about quite basic security (look decision about add ~/.local/bin to > the $PATH and complete kind of "desinteressement" about remove > /usr/local/{bin,sbin} from already used $PATH which widely opens hell gates > for malwares). > > Second most important goal on which candidates are focused is how internal > Fedora infrastructure works. > > No one of the candidates seems is aware that people are leaving Fedora boat > (look on distrowatch.com or > https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all and few other > similars stats) not because Modularity still doesn't work (and will never > work as no one will not change some fundamental bits in rpm). Most of the > candidates seems are completely unaware that end users of they work (binary > packages) simple don't care about how all Fedora stuff is build but HOW IT > WORKS. > > On top of this more and more decisions in Fedora seems are made in less and > less transparent and well technically justified way. > > Personally I don't see any GoodEnough(tm) candidate on which I can vote .. > candidate with descent own expertise of what is now Fedora Achilles heel .. > sad :(
Run for FESCo yourself or otherwise work to fix what you think are the problem areas. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UYW56UDEYWVJMQJTIPRGA7ZD73IA2WGH/
