[WBEL-users] I don't want a community

[Samuel Lewis]

With all due respect, I suspect there is a way to maintain control 
while also encouraging community support and assistance with updates.  
It would seem that if life is getting in the way of updates being 
timely released, then people could volunteer to download the source 
from RedHat, build it, and provide the build to a central control, who 
could then test and verify the build.  At least that will save the 
central control the task of having to download and build the rpms.

On Nov 19, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Bob Ramstad wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> The subject line may be a bit strong, but I think we've got a bit of a
> cultural issue here.
>
> Personally, I don't want a community which contributes updates and
> what not.  I want a centralized single point from which all updates
> come from.  I want to know that WBEL is stable, and this is critical
> to me, much more so than getting updates quickly.
>
> It is precisely the strong central control that attracts me to WBEL.
>
> If I wanted community involvement with thousands of optional RPMs and
> competing versions of things, I'd use a different distro.
>
> Now, of course this mailing list is nice in terms of exchanging
> information, pointers, tips and stuff like that... and so in that
> sense a WBEL community is a good worthwhile thing.
>
> Also of course, the current situation in regards to mirrors and timely
> access to updates is suboptimal.
>
> That said, I don't see any benefit to be gained from having random
> members of the community rolling their own RPMs and effectively
> forking WBEL.  If you want to do it, go ahead, but I'm sure I won't be
> the only one who ignores it and waits for real WBEL RPMs instead.
>
> -- Bob
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