On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:10:12 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > > The real question: how do we get *heard*? > > Have people do interviews. The slashdot one was great. Maybe see if > LWN is interested in asking some questions of what Fedora is about and > where it's headed. Jon you listening? :) > > And while I think Max _rocks_ at spreading the good word, it might not > hurt to have a few others do it. Thorsten for example. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85619 would have been an opportunity for that. A late rebuttal directly from within the Fedora Project would not be worth a bean. Some of the project objectives conflict with ESR's personal preferences, e.g. proprietary components. It's an opinion piece. He finds his target group. Even if proprietary multimedia formats, for example, are easy to add, Fedora won't win any people [back] who think the proprietary stuff ought to come built-in. Other points of his much too brief criticism don't lose weight as long as they remain partially true or are backed up by vocal people in their comments on relevant news articles. What most news websites don't and can't know, a package submission process that starts in bugzilla is incompatible with his desire to skip any steps which don't simply ship his entirely new packages into a dumping ground and without peer review. After he had been told about the new submission process that is in use since Fedora 3 and that afterwards, packages are maintained in cvs and are built by build-servers, he has started the submission of a first half-working package end of last year, but has not completed the few steps to sign up as a Fedora Contributor. It's not that some part of the submission process didn't work, it's a simple "I don't like it that way". _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
