Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting: Tuesday 13 November 2012, 19:00 UTC

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 09:51:36AM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 10-11-2012 13:37:48 -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > Last but not least, I see no reason (given we have to keep the code
> > > anyway) to make sysadmins, that feel unsure about this on their running
> > > production systems, go into this route.  You don't know what custom code
> > > they have installed/running.  They'll be on their own (no
> > > udev/GNOME/whatever support), but most likely they won't care about that
> > > at all.
> > 
> > No, we don't know what custom code people are running, but custom
> > someone is running is not an excuse to block change. We just
> > have to make change happen in an orderly fashion and make sure people
> > are aware of the change so they can find ways on their end to adapt.
> > Isn't that reasonable?
> 
> I look at it from the other side, why do we have to make upgrading
> impossible for people that can not, or will not perform that change?

If there are people running gentoo Linux who CAN NOT do this, they
definitely should speak up. That's exactly why a newsitem needs to be
sent out announcing this and giving a time window before we go forward
with anything.

There is a difference between CAN not and WILL not. If you disagree with
what I'm about to say say so, but it seems to me that if someone WILL
not perform a change, that is more something they should worry about,
not us.

William


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