[ale] Are the kernel developers a-holes? (was: Debian fork thoughts?)

[James Sumners]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:50:50AM -0500, James Sumners wrote:
> > But I'm going to side with the kernel developers in regard to systemd.
> The
> > developers of systemd have a history of dumping projects no one asked for
> > on the community and then not supporting them,
>
> [citation needed]
>
>  * A list of these "dumped" projects
>  * A list of these "unsupported" projects
>
> ignoring valid bug reports,
>
> [citation needed]
>
> (I suspect there is considerable disagreement what constitutes "validity")
>
> > or just plain abandoning them.
>
> [citation needed]
>
> Are you seriously saying that once someone writes some software,
> they are forever obliged to continue to support it?
>
> > But they don't do most of that before they've already managed to get
> > the project to be a major dependency of other projects.
>
>
Uh, hello, systemd and pulseaudio? GNOME? Do these ring a bell?


> Again, [citation needed]
>
>  - Solomon
>

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/ -- Creator doesn't seem
to have committed in at least 5 years on this thing no one wanted.

https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/4W6rrMMvhWU

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935 ->
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1MzA



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