[$] Fedora's modularity mess
Fedora's Modularity
initiative has been no stranger to controversy since its inception in 2016. Among other things, there
were enough problems with the original design that Modularity went back to the drawing board in early 2018.
Modularity has since been integrated with both the Fedora and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distributions, but the controversy continues, with
some developers asking whether it's time for yet another redesign — or to
abandon the idea altogether. Over the last month or so, several lengthy,
detailed, and heated threads have explored this issue; read on for your
editor's attempt to integrate what was said.