Linux Geek Out Moment of the Day

A gent by the name of Konstantin Ryabitsev posted the following priceless message to the Fedora devel list last night and I had a hard time containing my laughter as I read it.
P’rhaps only the Fedora geeks out there will find it funny, but I was completely cracking up.

— BEGIN IRC LOG —

<rh_pr> We are announcing Red Hat Project! A community-based distribution!
<oss_crowd> rh_pr: Neat.
<rh_dev> rh_pr: Uh… I’m not ready.
  * rh_pr is away: promoting rhel
<oss_crowd> rh_dev: what do we do?
<rh_dev> oss_crowd: I’m not sure.
<rh_legal> rh_dev: don’t do anything until I say it’s ok.
<oss_crowd> rh_dev: what can we do to help with Red Hat Project?
<rh_dev> oss_crowd: uh… file bugs and help test things.
<oss_crowd> rh_dev: didn’t we always do that?
<rh_sales> hey, all, if you really want a stable system, don’t use fedora project. It will eat your brane. Buy RHEL instead.
<rh_dev> rh_sales: stfu

  — rh_pr removes voice from rh_sales
<fedora_us> hey, all, check out our neat community-driven system for red hat development
<oss_crowd> fedora_us: ooooh!
<rh_pr> fedora_us: I like your name
  — fedora_rh joined the channel

<rh_legal> much better
<rh_pr> We are announcing Fedora Project! A community-driven distribution!
<oss_crowd> rh_pr: Neat!
  * fedora_rh waves

<fedora_us> I’m not dead yet.
<fedora_rh> fedora_us: don’t confuse things.
<fedora_us> fedora_rh: does this mean we’re merging?
<fedora_rh> fedora_us: maybe
<rh_legal> fedora_rh: don’t do anything until I say it’s ok.
  — fedora_us joined #limbo

<oss_crowd> fedora_rh: so, what can we do to help?
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: uh… file bugs and help test things.
<oss_crowd> sigh… didn’t we always do that?
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: I know, let’s all go in the circle and say our names.
  * oss_crowd goes in the circle and says their names. This lasts several months.

<fedora_rh> So, there will be the following features in the next release of Fedora Core.
<oss_crowd> Uh… Hold on. Who gets to decide?
<rh_sales> We do. That stuff will be neato for RHEL-4.
<oss_crowd> MMkay, then. When do _we_ get to suggest things?
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: feel free to talk among yourselves.
  * oss_crowd talks among themselves about new features.

<fedora_rh> btw, feature X will be disabled in the release.
  * oss_crowd glares at fedora_rh

<oss_crowd> fedora_rh: nice of you to tell us while we were sitting here talking.
<rh_dev> oss_crowd: sorry, it’s just not happening.
<oss_crowd> rh_dev: when do we get to decide what’s happening?
<rh_dev> oss_crowd: Dunno, I’ll ask rh_legal
<rh_legal> rh_dev: ugh, /msg me
<rh_sales> rh_dev: let’s not do anything rash here.
  * fedora_us gets tired of sitting in #limbo
<oss_crowd> fedora_rh: I want to see more of the “community” part of the whole “community-based” thing
<oss_crowd> rh_dev: how about at least a publicly accessible CVS/SVN tree?
<rh_dev> oss_crowd: Yeah, that would be cool.
<oss_crowd> rh_dev: finally, some movement. When is that going to be up?
  * rh_dev is away: talking to rh_legal
* oss_crowd tries to occupy themselves and do things like fedoranews and fedorapeople.
<oss_crowd> Uh… ping?
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: what’s up?
<oss_crowd> fedora_rh: We’re feeling kinda useless. What exactly is our role, again?
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: well, it would be really helpful if you could test some things and file the bugs.
<oss_crowd> fedora_rh: ugh. We ALWAYS did that.
  * oss_crowd begins to wonder what exactly is the purpose of fedora_rh
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: it’s the open-development, proving-grounds for new technology component of Red Hat, as opposed to RHEL.
<rh_sales> Told ya it’ll eat your brane.
  — rh_pr kicks rh_sales from the channel (you’re a dolt)
<oss_crowd> fedora_rh: so, let me get this straight. Effectively, you want us to download the packages you release, test things, file bugs, and submit patches.
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: Sure, why not?
<oss_crowd> …but when it comes to things like features, direction of the project, and which software to include in the distribution, it’s the decision of Red Hat?
  * fedora_rh is away: I AM RH
<fedora_us> I’m still not dead.
<oss_crowd> fedora_rh: How is that different from how things were before the whole “publicly-supported distribution” thing?
<oss_crowd> rh_dev: where is that long-promised public CVS/SVN repo?
<rh_dev> dunno, talk to fedora_rh
<fedora_rh> oss_crowd: look, such things don’t happen in a week, ok?
<oss_crowd> IT’S BEEN A YEAR!
  — rh_sales joined the channel
<rh_sales> EAT YOUR BRAAAAAANE.
<oss_crowd> /mode +b rh_sales
  — You’re not ops in here.
<oss_crowd> figures

— END IRC LOG —

[UPDATE]
Based on the referrer logs, welcome, MJ Ray (by way of PlanetDebian) and LWN readers!
[UPDATE 2]
Welcome, Slashdotters!

19 Comments

Omg, I can’t believe no one’s posted a comment to this. This is hilarious (and disturbingly similar to my experience with Fedora)…

Link:
I just about rolled out of my chair at work when this message came across the fedora-devel-list. I think it’s possibly one of the funniest bits of tech humo[u]r I’ve seen in a while.

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Fedora and the OSS Community
A post on the RedHat Fedora mailing list in the form of an IRC log (colorized version) – pretty hilarious.

what distro?
I like linux. I have a little server under my desk running sshd, apache, courier, samba, and various other bits and pieces……

[Edited by Doug]
Wow, my very first spam comment!
Bahleted!
Sorry for any that had to witness that idiot.

I used to use windows for many years before but now I have switched over to suse Linux and I am loving it!

[…] Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:07:03 -0400 Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: Mike Chambers wrote: I think Red Hat went out on a limb and went ahead and told everyone what was going to happen with changing to Fedora and letting us in on how this thing will work in general. Let me, err, relay how things are looking from outside of RH in the format everyone will understand… [SNIP] Konstantine: Hope you don’t mind, but I posted a nicely html-ized and colorized version of that gem up on my weblog: http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2004/05/04/linux-geek-out-moment-of-the-day/ […]

[…] Le projet Fedora : Confessions intimes C’est le seul article que j’ai lu actuellement. Réalisé par Michael K. Johnson, un employé de longue de date (historique?) de RedHat, et responsable de Fedora à ses début, l’article est très intéressant. Pour information, Cristian Gafton est le nouveau leader du projet Fedora. L’article débute par la réflexion menée par Red Hat qui a aboutit au projet Fedora (initialement le “Projet Red Hat Linux”). Pas de langue de bois, les aspects financiers et relations avec les partenaires commerciaux sont détaillés. L’article parle souvent de la confusion qu’a créé Red Hat avec la création de Fedora. Il insiste que Fedora n’est pas un moyen pour Red Hat de se “débarrasser” de feu “Red Hat Linux”. Fedora est nécessaire à Red Hat pour faire une bonne RHEL qui permet de fait du pognon (comme dit l’article “Red Hat est publiquement une compagnie à caractère commercial non caritatif”). Ensuite il y a une description de Fedora (on retrouve grosso-modo tout ça sur le site officiel). Finalement les travaux en cours et à venir sont décrits. Sur ce dernier point, il y a un peu de langue de bois. Quelques contributeurs ont déjà reprochés la communication de Red Hat. Une excellente caricature est ici : http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2004/05/04/linux-geek-out-m(…) Les trois principaux reproches sont (selon ma perception) : retard du système de build externe et donc peu de contributions externes directes. […]

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