On 08/30/2010 07:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:03, Jesse Keating
<jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 08/28/2010 09:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> The cynic in me would expect that the people who want something different
>>> than the fire hose we have now are silently leaving, and those that are
>>> left are going to say they like the deluge of updates.
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>> You say that as if it were a negative thing.
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> To me it is. It's you and people like you that want to shove a ton of
> updates down the throats of our stable release users (including changes
> that alter behavior and sonames etc...) that have ruined the Fedora I
> helped to build. I want my Fedora back, I don't want what you're creating.
The problem to quote a tv philosopher is:
The avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
The changes towards a distribution that attracts people who live in
the moment happened a while back, and has been building momentum for
quite some time. Trying to erect barriers now is not going to help but
make it so nothing exists afterwords. The things that can be done are:
A) get out of the way, B) go with the flow, or C) figure out what you
can build on top of it. [I am looking at option C]
The pressure to stabilize is a much needed-correction to the pressure
to innovate.
Consider what happens without any such back-pressure. Those who can
no longer stand the churn leave, with only the hard-core bleeding-
edgers remaining. The churn gets faster. Then, even some of those
who were the previous generation of bleeding-edgers can't cope, and
they leave. Left behind, are the *serious* hard core. Etc... This
is a classic case of unrestrained positive feedback, just like thermal
runaway.
In my view, this is exactly the situation we're in at the moment, but
some people are trying to apply a correction to prevent the distro
burning out. It is not too late.
Andrew.