Re: Vote to extend F14 security updates

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 9/2/2011 2:13 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>> In order to help the community stay with Fedora, could
>> security updates for F14 be provided until F17 is released?
> Fedora is not a democracy. It is a meritocracy.
>
> The only changes that get made to Fedora are by people that work to make
> the changes. Votes are not cast. Petitions are not honored. The elected
> individuals in Fedora are to keep the package maintainers in check with
> the existing policies. They do not govern the direction of upstream
> software.
>
> To put it bluntly, if this isn't obvious by now, this thread is pointless.
It is pointless only if the developers chose not to listen to what the 
user base is saying. There is no obligation on them to do what this or 
any thread suggests. But I would think they would want to know the 
reaction to the "direction of upstream software".
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