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No, my statement was Fedora was about to shoot itself in the foot and that it'd be easier for Bazzite to not exist than for us to clean up their mess.

Note that this was in a change proposal which was rescinded without a vote by it's proposer.





Mmh, you definitely misremember that

> As much as I’d like this change to happen, it’s too soon. This change would kill off projects like Bazzite entirely right as Fedora is starting to make major headway in the gaming space.

> I’m speaking as it’s founder, if this change is actually made as it is written the best option for us is to just go ahead and disband the project.

Now, whenever you would've actually shut down the project is a different story, but your messaging was very clear.


What is the point of this line of questioning? They stated that the proposal as-written would make maintaining projects like Bazzite untenable. That's a valid thing to say and not that much of a "threat", but even if it were, most people involved here is effectively unpaid and can do whatever they want with their time.

The point is the original commenter said there’s a risk of these kinds of projects getting shut down. The creator chimed in and claimed there wasn’t much risk, and then someone posted comments from the same creator in the recent past talking about shutting the project down if an upstream change was made, validating the original comment and making the creator sound less valid.

Comments it seems taken in bad faith

> Now, whenever you would've actually shut down the project is a different story, but your messaging was very clear.

The messaging was very clear that the upstream change would make Bazzite almost untenable.

It was a criticism of Fedora, not a threat to quit.


I totally get that and personally would never hold that against him. Nor did I interpret it as a threat.

However, this comment chain was of how vulnerable non commercial projects like it are to outside factors making causing exactly this issue, making further maintenance on the project infeasible... Consequently ending it, effectively.

There is no blame in play here. haunter merely quoted this as a reason for why theyre worried about it longevity - and considering there was a discussion about an upstream change which would've realized his worry... It seems not at all misrepresented?

Fwiw, I personally don't share the same worry as haunter, because I don't see the chosen distribution nor OS as a significant investment. I feel comfortable switching things around occasionally


For those of us who aren’t seeing the threat as clearly as you are, are you possibly misinterpreting things?

I don’t interpret “an upstream change would make this project impossible to maintain” as a “threat”.


No that appears to be directly in line with what I said. What's missing here is your understanding of a proposal vs an actual change Fedora is going to make.

Mmh, you definitely like to cause drama by putting words in someone's mouth

Do you claim his quotes are not real?

The issue isn’t that the quotes aren’t real, rather that they’re very much misrepresented.



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