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It's really frustrating when project maintainers praying people not to open issues but to send merge or pull requests instead, are the same that wouldn't comment on your pull requests, not even to acknowledge a yes or a no, and leave them open forever.
I understand that maintaining a FOSS project is a lot of work, but if you receive an actual concrete contribution, at least have the decency to say "no thanks." I'm not even asking for the rationale behind the decision.
“The teenager, Celeste Burgess, 19, and her mother, Jessica Burgess, 42, were charged last year after the police obtained their private Facebook messages, which showed them discussing plans to end the pregnancy”
Just to recap the latest in the #Redhat RHEL vs downstreams not offering them any value drama:
Redhat publically states that downstream rebuilders offer them no value, and the RHEL community should all be working in the Centos-stream sandbox, because that's where the community is, because it has community right there in the name, and that's where the code fixes can land, and community is only about lines of code in the repo.
@almalinux goes "alright, no value in us being a 1:1 rebuild of RHEL, then we're cutting our own path while being based on Centos-stream, staying ABI compatible with RHEL, but we'll fix our own bugs when we find them"
Alma Linux then finds a CVE in the iperf3 server impacting everyone in the Enterprise Linux 9 ecosystem, so they release the fix for AlmaLinux, and then immediately open pull requests for Fedora and Centos-stream to land the fix upstream. Which would seem to be exactly what Redhat was asking for this whole time.
Redhat's response to the centos-stream pull request? "There is no current customer demand for this fix in RHEL, so we're not interested in this fix"
The astute will notice that the pull request is feeding into centos-stream, and not RHEL. But they're making merge decisions here based on immediate customer demand in RHEL.
So maybe this whole "Centos-stream is the community distro" line was bullshit and it really is just the beta testing ground for RHEL, just like all of us kind of thought it was while getting shouted down by the centos-stream advocates this whole time.
As a climate scientist who has warned about the threat of climate change for decades, I think the fact that we just saw what was probably the hottest day in recorded history, and probably in thousands of years, is deserving of attention...
Why is #Ansible significantly slower when I spec in ansible.cfg ssh config options like -F .ssh/config where I want to use a custom config for that project. It's super slow AND it errors out during the setup phase. The mind boggles
Open offer: If you are confused by the recent #RedHat announcement on source RPMS and all the drama of "Red Hat isn't open anymore!1!!" and other weird accusations — DM me and I will happily explain the details in a call. I also agree to you recording that call and use the result in any way you want.
@jwildeboer
Jan, I am not confused, I see clearly.
It makes me sad, sad to see loyal employees, valued members of the OSS community, defending management decisions and putting themselves in the firing line.
At the end of the day, a company has to make money. I get that.
It used to be that #RedHat stood out with its service, its help and the people behind it because the software is "free".
Not anymore. I get that.
Don't make yourself a pawn. For them, you're "just a worker".
@jwildeboer I don‘t see any possibilities in which arguments could change my view.
It’s not about the move, it’s their explanation and their arguments why this move should be accepted by the community. It’s their view that shines through the phrases.
Every contributor has every right to feel pissed, as a formal #ansible core contributor, spending days and weeks if not months working and contributing for ansible (for free) I feel pissed.
Final thoughts on the Red Hat thing: every supporter of the Red Hat move told me that "it's normal to want to prevent people from stealing the hard work and making a clone of it".
If you think grabbing the code and reusing it is "stealing", you don't understand FOSS.
No matter what RH clones contribute, or if they're worth it. That's not the point. The point is, RH builds their stuff using the GPL, and they have to redistribute using the GPL.
@thelinuxEXP I do more then agree with your words especially the "freeloaders" and "stealing" part. It's the arrogant behaviour they show.
One thing you mention is wrong by definition. GPL does not say the code is free of cost, but you have the same right do redistribute, modify and sell.
But it's against the open source mindset to restrict this right in other clause "we close the access to get the code if you build a competitive product".
Isn't it ironic that #RedHat, a company founded in 1993 by taking other people's code and forming a distribution that today generates $3.5 billion in revenue, is now treating others as if they are stealing #RedHat's code to do business.
Help me lazyelephant. After #Debian upgrade from 11 to 12, the #amdgpu kernel module no longer loads for my Radeon Pro WX5100 ("No such device"). Shows up all right in lspci. firmware-amd-graphics is installed and right version. Thoughts?
[yes, non-free-firmware IS enabled and the files are installed]
I took a dive into #Vitess today, the "secret sauce" from YouTube (and Planetscale) for crazy database scaling.
Honestly it does look really good, nicer than Galera, but they really need better documentation and examples for everyone that doesn't use Kubernetes. 😡
So for now I don't think I'm going to use it. That said, I think I will switch to Percona from MariaDB, to save myself the migration pain later.
@dmoser for now, it‘s inefficient, we all agree but potential is huge for get more efficiency and they already made progress in labs. Furher imagine everyone owns an EV plugs the EV at 7 pm for charging. The net has to deliver the need. Do we really think the current state of electricity network scales well enough to deliver this amount of power? I doubt. I could imagine in a not so far future a decentralized storage of power using #hydrogen in every home. We‘ll see.
It's 2023 and my German internet provider (DTAG) still forces a change of public IP (v4 and v6) address every 24 hours ATM for me, making sure I cannot run my own services reliably from my server at home.
UPDATE: Changed the wording to reflect my individual problems, as it seems others do not have these effects. Still: you cannot get a dedicated IPv4 address or IPv6 range as a home user/domestic customer.
