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> We have also enriched the upstream community. AlmaLinux community members have submitted PRs to projects such as RPM, AWX, and VirtualBox. Our community has s
by throw_a_grenade 3y ago
> We have also enriched the upstream community. AlmaLinux community members have submitted PRs to projects such as RPM, AWX, and VirtualBox. Our community has sent over 50 PRs to GlusterFS and also extended openQA. A Red Hat employee even thanked us for enabling Fedora tests to run on ELN and RHEL. An AlmaLinux contributor (who was formerly an ArchLinux user) was so fired up by our community that he now maintains over 600 Fedora and Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) packages, including some widely-used ones like certbot, brotli, iperf3, imapsync, and countless Python libraries, many of them as the primary contributor maintaining them for the greater Fedora and Enterprise Linux ecosystem. EPEL is tremendously important to both Red Hat and RHEL users.
I wasn't aware of this. So it's looks like RH/IBM argument that they don't contribute back is bullsh*t.
- itsmartapuntocm 3y agoIt was always a bad faith argument.
- 5e92cb50239222b 3y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/14jq5i7/t/jpoeunh/ https://old.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/14jq5i7/t/jpoeunh/ tl;dr: there are some contributions, mostly not to RHEL but to the surrounding ecosystem (including RHEL's upstream), so it apparently doesn't count.
- throw_a_grenade 3y agoSo it doesn't count when AlmaLinux does contribute upstream, but somehow counts when RH contributes and has this "100% upstream policy"? Is this RH's argument?
- freedomben 3y agoDon't read one guy's opinion on Reddit and attribute it to the whole company. There are surely others who agree with him, and others who don't. This is the kind of dumb stuff that leads to most tech companies barring employees from saying anything. Let's stay reasonable.
- spookie 3y agoThe implication that nothing from Fedora will make into RHEL for years seems absurd to me. Is this true?