[om-council] Forwarding email from Ben

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer bero at lindev.ch
Fri May 12 20:38:43 EDT 2017


On Saturday, May 13, 2017 01:46 CEST, rugyada <rugyada at gmail.com> wrote: 
 
> 2017-05-13 0:02 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at lindev.ch>:
> >
> >> FWIW-6: For those of you who have decided to switch from urpmi to dnf
> >> perhaps it would have been wiser to include more people in the
> >> discussion and decision making process
> >
> > No. Not on this one.
> >
> 
> No, on the principle. But in between the white and the black there are
> some greys...
> 
> I won't ask who where why and when, I don't care right now. But let me
> say that not even myself - although following all the discussions, at
> least the main points there - have never realized what happened.

It has been discussed in TC meetings for months. And this is really where this belongs, since it's a technical decision that won't have a big effect on the end user (who will still see the exact same frontends). We're even planning to provide a wrapper script that will do the right thing if a user types "urpmi whatever" on the command line.
>From a pure end user perspective, the only noticeable thing will be bugs disappearing and possibly updates installing a little faster - so this is really not all that different from updating glibc, switching from man to man-db or all the other things we've done at some point that simply aren't newsworthy enough to bore users with. (But of course given the history, we'd get some death threats from the likes of Blackcrack for moving further away from the releases of the 90s).

But, that said, it can't hurt to make more of a noise about all the things we're doing (but we need a volunteer to do it!) -- every time I see one of the gazillion articles saying things like "OMG! Ubuntu just upgraded to Mesa 17.0! They're GODS!", my reaction is a big yawn and "In the mean time, we're already on 17.1 and nobody talks about it".
We may need to do something there regardless of whether or not there's an issue with keeping our own community informed.

ttyl
bero




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