From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: when distros do not support official Marcelo kernels they are not being team players (was Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server?) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:53:07 +0300 Message-ID: <3E3F8D83.5000405@namesys.com> References: <20030130173522.3aa4d0e1.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> <3E397A19.60409@namesys.com> <20030130234142.E8448@vestdata.no> <3E3A6071.6060102@namesys.com> <20030131115333.GC15359@marowsky-bree.de> <3E3A67AE.4050601@namesys.com> <20030131122147.GE15359@marowsky-bree.de> <3E3A6D76.7080300@namesys.com> <86lm0xpmho.fsf@trasno.mitica> <3E3E7A95.1050908@namesys.com> <1044284001.15685.358.camel@tiny.suse.com> <3E3EBA3F.7060806@namesys.com> <1044300746.15684.428.camel@tiny.suse.com> <3E3EC7EC.8090005@namesys.com> <1044304857.15684.475.camel@tiny.suse.com> <3E3F0D5D.5070409@namesys.com> <1044324173.15684.503.camel@tiny.suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1044324173.15684.503.camel@tiny.suse.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Chris Mason Cc: Juan Quintela , Lars Marowsky-Bree , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= , Jure Pecar , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Chris Mason wrote: >Feel free to start the ultimate distribution where people can purchase a >complete set of cds that results in a coherent, stable and fast install, >where any component could be swapped with it's >generic-recompiled-from-the-net counterpart and still provide support >when people report bugs, all for a reasonable price. > > > If the maintainer of the software has issued it as a stable official release, the distros should support it unless they know that particular release is at fault. It comes down to a struggle over social place. I think it is presumptuous of distros, and harmful to the community, for them to discourage downloading the latest version by the official maintainer because of their desire that the user come to them for everything. The maintainer, not the distro, should be telling the user what to use. If the maintainer makes mistakes, they should live with them. For the kernel, the maintainer is Marcelo. -- Hans