Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Jul 2006 17:45 UTC, submitted by lh8
Will Woods, the new test lead for the Fedora Project, has only been in his position a few weeks, but already he has a clear goal in mind. Whenever Fedora is mentioned on Slashdot, he notes, "There's always someone who will comment that Fedora is just Red Hat's beta test for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It's not true, and I want no one to have cause to say that ever again."
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2006-02-01
Well looks like rhavyn got tired of trying to explain this to you and wrote you off. But I've now read this entire comment thread and just can't not reply to this last outburst of stupidity that you just had to post.
"I would just like to confirm that 23 months of resistance to adding basic sanity checking to prevent database corruption to the package manager is a perfectly acceptable QA policy in your book."
This is not about basic sanity testing, it's a freakin PEBKAC error. This numbnut mounted his /usr partition read-only and then tried to run a system update. What the hell do you expect to happen? the developer, in this case, gave this guy much more of his time than I damn well would have. Not only that, but at this point it has gone from a bug report status to a forum post "help request" but this guy doesn't have enough sense to ask politely for help. No, he has to go ranting on about how the system should do every little bit of thinking for him and proceeds to verbally attack the developer.
"And so is failing to respond for 5 months as long as another distro has the same problem."
I don't know enough about the entire situation on this one to comment extensively, but it could very likely have been a duplicated report that got glossed over instead of thrown in the bit bucket for all we know.
"And failing to ever respond at all is OK as long as not *all* radeon users are locked at 640x480."
You are absolutely right. Not *all* radeon cards had this problem. Only the ones in the posession of retards who can't figure out how to configure X. You seem to have a problem seeing the difference between a bug report and a support request. the first, if legitimate, should be prioritized and fixed accordingly. As for the second, the Fedora developers/community have no obligation to offer free technical support. Many do offer assistance, but there is a time and a place for it. the bug list ain't it.
"I'd just like you to sign off on that."
You really are an arrogant little troll. there's a place for guys like you. http://slashdot.org. Before you go on let me go ahead and spell this out for you. I'm not a "fedora defender". Hell I'm not even a Linux user. I'm an OpenBSD user, and I'd absolutely love to see you bring one of these rants to misc@openbsd.org. Let's just say they would be ever so slightly less receptive to your comments than the fine folks here at OSNews.
Edited 2006-07-21 06:18