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Comment by throw_a_grenade | Hacker News Reader

throw_a_grenade

> We have also enriched the upstream community. AlmaLinux community members have submitted PRs to projects such as RPM, AWX, and VirtualBox. Our community has sent over 50 PRs to GlusterFS and also extended openQA. A Red Hat employee even thanked us for enabling Fedora tests to run on ELN and RHEL. An AlmaLinux contributor (who was formerly an ArchLinux user) was so fired up by our community that he now maintains over 600 Fedora and Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) packages, including some widely-used ones like certbot, brotli, iperf3, imapsync, and countless Python libraries, many of them as the primary contributor maintaining them for the greater Fedora and Enterprise Linux ecosystem. EPEL is tremendously important to both Red Hat and RHEL users.

I wasn't aware of this. So it's looks like RH/IBM argument that they don't contribute back is bullsh*t.

https://old.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/14jq5i7/t/jpoeunh/

tl;dr: there are some contributions, mostly not to RHEL but to the surrounding ecosystem (including RHEL's upstream), so it apparently doesn't count.

The implication that nothing from Fedora will make into RHEL for years seems absurd to me. Is this true?

RHEL 7 was introduced in 2014; RHEL8 came out in 2019.

That 5 years is the longest gap so far.

Even if it's years, it does get into RHEL, so it is value by itself, since I do assume they don't plan to shut down RHEL in 1 year.

So it doesn't count when AlmaLinux does contribute upstream, but somehow counts when RH contributes and has this "100% upstream policy"? Is this RH's argument?

Don't read one guy's opinion on Reddit and attribute it to the whole company. There are surely others who agree with him, and others who don't. This is the kind of dumb stuff that leads to most tech companies barring employees from saying anything. Let's stay reasonable.

It was always a bad faith argument.

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