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>In addition, this is a self-service application, in the sense that anyone can create a Fedora contributor account and gain authenticated access to various serv
by INTPenis 2y ago
>In addition, this is a self-service application, in the sense that anyone can create a Fedora contributor account and gain authenticated access to various services.
I legitimately wanted to get a package into Fedora a few years ago, a service that did not exist already, and I couldn't get past the fact that they require new contributor accounts to be sponsored by someone already a contributor. I was unable to secure sponsorship by anyone and just gave up.
- pluto_modadic 2y agothis could be a useful mechanism actually... shame it didn't work out
- INTPenis 2y agoAgreed, I have been a RHEL ecosystem user for 11 years now. My experience in the Fedora community was actually comforting to me.
- ForOldHack 2y agoNow that is cool.
- ForOldHack 2y agoThen you have someone to blame for sponsoring an exploit vs some unsponsored person who identified the same exploit patched it, and no one bothered to check either way. I guess I got lucky never trusting Mint. I did trust Slackware, because I knew someone who trusted Pat V. I guess I also need to rub shoulders with Linux maintainers vs people like Marc Andressen. I did meet RMS, but he has no personality. Woz? Wolfram? Anna V? I met the SUSE people, and one of the RedHat maintainers, who gave me a tee-shirt, a poster, two bumper stickers, and the latest distribution of RedHat. It was easier a decade ago... Despite the amount of brilliance here, again, we never have had a single meet and greet.