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[RahulSundaram]

Clearly not since as you are already aware of, Stratis doesn't use Btrfs and Red Hat doesn't have a single Btrfs developer on payroll.

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[RahulSundaram]

If they prefer an umbrella project and have set it up, they see a need for it. They have the right to do that....

[RahulSundaram]

You are attempting to describe one aspect of it called "ramp up time" by Brooks but you are missing some preconditions in this understanding....

[RahulSundaram]

This conflates a lot of unrelated things and it is helpful to start with the understanding that the path chosen by Fedora and Red Hat for RHEL can and...

[RahulSundaram]

Nothing in the governance indicates modern to me. Where do you see that? In any case, many developers don't view github style development as more modern...

[RahulSundaram]

Doesn't apply here. They are neither late (since none of the projects are on a strict schedule) nor or they trying to add more manpower. It is just...

[RahulSundaram]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Regardless of your intent, I was just adding some context, in case anyone is unfamiliar with how...

[RahulSundaram]

Err, the most common reason why this feature gets attention is for example, because of business customers wanting it so they can work on their company...

[RahulSundaram]

This is entirely unlikely. The kernel userspace boundary makes GPL a non problem for Google especially now that they have treble in place. They only...

[RahulSundaram]

I am curious to know, for what?...

[RahulSundaram]

If you see up the thread, ChristianSchaller posted that Fedora is planning to get this feature soon. It is not unusual for Fedora to do these changes....

[RahulSundaram]

I simply don't understand why you would obsess over something that doesn't match your preferences instead of moving on to something you enjoy. That is...

[RahulSundaram]

There is no "body" per say if you are thinking of a central authority. GNOME screensaver IIRC is maintained by a volunteer. Open minded...

[RahulSundaram]

If you are going to be blunt, you might want to be aware of the fact that GNOME foundation does not manage the technical direction of GNOME at all. ...

[RahulSundaram]

While this is technically true, what happens in practice matters and that is often dictated by things like packaging guidelines. You will be hard pressed...

[RahulSundaram]

Yes, that is precisely my point that it was historically just a single bundled patch, not a list of individual patches, that is a substantial difference...

[RahulSundaram]

Not the same thing. diff.gz is a unified context diff from upstream bundled in. There is no machine readable list of patches in that format....

[RahulSundaram]

RPM packaging has uniformly maintained a list of upstream pristine sources, followed by a list of *separate patches* in a single spec. That's the difference....

[RahulSundaram]

Not uniformly, no. It depends on what version and system is used and there have been several :
https://wiki.debian.org/debian/patches...

[RahulSundaram]

The point is not that RPM packages apply patches but instead that upstream source is clearly separated from the patches within the package....