After Days of Dissent and Anger From the Fedora Community the Mailing List 'Loses' All the Messages

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-08-17 00:56:53 UTC
Modified: 2023-08-17 00:56:53 UTC

What exactly is going on? Anything like Sirius 'Open Source' shutting down its own communications server (falsely claiming technical issues) while unjustly firing a blind colleague?

Summary: IBM/Red Hat staff pushed back against angry messages from Fedora developers, users, and packagers; now the mailing list isn't working at all

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