> Am 28.05.2021 um 11:43 schrieb Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 3:45 AM Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Nevertheless, coordination and cooperation is at least very desirable (in 
>> fact, indispensable).  And is is not just about who is paying the bills. 
>> Beyond this crude economic dimension, Fedora benefits from the reputation of 
>> being upstream for RHEL (and vice versa, for sure). A defiant "we can do as 
>> we like" is not helpful
> 
> Being upstream for RHEL also means pushing forward and demonstrating
> that things *can* work better in a different way. If we didn't,
> there's no way for RHEL to change. We bring no value as upstream if we
> don't actually *do* things.

Agreed. And yet it requires coordination and discussion, in a transparent and 
comprehensible manner.


>> Cloud Working Group did not happened for years, then there were a few short, 
>> sparsely-attended and content-dry meetings. A range of existing problems, 
>> starting with lack of documentation. A hesitancy to make any change 
>> currently to the cloud artifacts (expressed by Dusty Mabe at that March 
>> meeting, 3). And then out of nowhere the file system conversion, a very 
>> central element. To me, it seems like a playground for missionaries to gain 
>> ground, certainly not like a considerate and methodical long-term design.
>> 
> 
> Actually, the Cloud WG members had been talking about this ad-hoc
> since all the desktop variants switched last year. The ticket[4] was
> filed around the same time the desktop change was proposed. Dusty,
> Joe, James, and myself had been talking about it outside of meetings
> since. David became interested after the Nest talk about Btrfs[5].
> That conversation started again after my talk on Btrfs at DevConf.cz
> (the recording has not been published still, sadly). So this has been
> a long time coming.
> 
> [4]: https://pagure.io/cloud-sig/issue/308
> [5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHjhouSxIrc


I would have expected at least a public announcement on the cloud mailing list 
including an invitation for discussion at an IRC meeting and - for such a 
far-reaching matter - a subsequent voting. 

But I'm not involved in the Cloud SIG. So let's close the discussion. 




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