Re: LUG: installfest on 22 Apr - Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:12:59 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: installfest on 22 Apr

From : Nitin Dahyabhai <nitind@pobox.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:12:59 -0400

> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 01:14 -0400, Jonathan Smith wrote:
> > There are over a thousand open bugs against FC5 right now... over a
> > thousand [1]. So many that bugzilla can't comprehend it. All I'm saying
> > is that I don't want to have to support some ex-windows user who has no
> > idea why $foonecessarycomponent isn't working.

Many eyes means more bugs get found. But from working on an Open Source
project I can attest that it doesn't necessarily mean those bugs get
fixed right away. There are only so many people both interested in and
capable of creating fixes for a particular codebase at any given time.

> > /me drops the issue and prays that no flamewars break out

Hah, that'll teach you.

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:45:19PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> Using upgrade is something no respectable core user does. That feature
> has never worked properly.

Bzzzzt, wrong, wrong, wrong. As long as I'm paying attention to and
deal with the .rpmnew and .rpmsave files that get created, I have very
few issues with the Upgrade path using the installer. But then I'm not
using yum to upgrade the entire distribution in one fell swoop.

Those people a C-R-A-Z-Y.