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Red Hat refuses Alma's CVE patches to CentOS Stream; says "no customer demand" (i.redd.it)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/iperf3/-/merge_requests/5

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I read it, and I read the messages from the devs. The communication issue I am trying to point is also highlighted in the comments: if the decision on merging a PR is uniquely dictated by financial benefits of IBM, ignoring the broader benefits of the community, the message is that red hat is looking for free labor and it is not really interested in anything else. Which is absolutely the case, as we all know, but writing it down after the recent events is another PR issue, as red hat justified controversial decisions on the lack of contributions from downstream.

The Italian dev tried to put it down as "we have to follow our service management processes that are messy, tedious and expensive" but he didn't address the problems in the original message. The contributor himself felt like they asked his contribution just to reject it because of purely financial reasons without any additional details. It is a new PR incident

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know what to tell you. This change was more appropriate for Fedora and developers are bad at PR is basically the simplest way to put it.