On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Mike McGrath (mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > I suspect going in this direction would have significant consequences on our day > > > to day operations. > > > > > > By not focusing on an end-user/developer product, our contributor base is > > > likely to take a pretty large hit. Our normal progression is user -> > > > contributor, and if you're starting out as an app incubator, you're not > > > going to have any users until the apps reach a certain stage of maturity. > > > > > > > I'm not a big fan of turning all of our users into contributors. The > > whole quality vs quantity problem. > > Not saying we need to convert *all* of our users into contributors; merely > saying that our current product gives us a built-in base of relevant people > from which to draw contributors. If we start out working on services, and don't > yet have any deployable services for people to try, we're going to have a much > harder time pulling in new contributors. Generally, for new projects to > attract contributors, it needs to be at some minimum level of usefulness. > I guess my argument here is that if we don't do this, we won't have any users left anyway. It's not a hard cutover, it's a transition. The larger computing universe is headed that way anyway, I just think we should lead that transition instead of fight it. -Mike _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
