On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:01:29 AM MST Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > * Having a buildroot called "EL Next" means that Fedora gets in the
> > business
>
> > of composing the development version of RHEL in addition to the
> > development version of Fedora. I do not see how this is the job of
> > Fedora
> > and Fedora maintainers. RHEL should be developed on RHEL
> > infrastructure,
> > by RHEL maintainers only.
>
>
> That sounds like the exact opposite of open source, to me. The entire
> point of this exercise is to do *less* work out of the public eye. The
> set of people who would be doing this work behind the firewall are now
> going to be instructed to work in Rawhide (and, by extension, ELN) to
> prepare for future versions of RHEL. This will also give the community
> at large more opportunity to influence the eventual RHEL 9 (and
> onwards) content and design.
>
> So, new issues that are discovered while building for a RHEL prototype
> will be far more visible and can be addressed earlier, either by the
> community maintainer or the RHEL maintainer working in the Fedora
> environment.

So, effectively, this is just Red Hat/IBM looking for free labor from Fedora 
developers? That's how this comes across, at least with that wording. If it's 
just a matter of allowing development to happen in public, Red Hat/IBM could 
simply make their repository available publicly.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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