On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> wrote:
My impression recently was that there are a lot of people doing and inventing a lot of things on their own which has almost nothing to do with any Linux standards, particularly again Lennart Poettering, and that some other distros just take Lennart's ideas without thinking about it, while other distros don't do this, etc.
There has been a lot of changes lately, this is true. However, a lot of effort has been put into reaching consensus between the distros and the relevant upstream projects. Much more so now than before. It is my impression that a majority of the ideas have originated in Debian and Fedora, but I don't really care who came up with what idea as long as we end up with the best ideas in the end (and possibly more importantly, that we all end up with the same ideas). As far as I can tell the different changes are receiving a lot of scrutiny within the different distros before being adopted (as one would expect); and overall we are all moving in the same direction. -t