-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/16/2010 02:06 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 13:47 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> By and large, we're just packagers and testers, with a few exceptions. >> Perhaps there is a large enough subcommunity of people who are actual >> code writers who can help with your goals, but mostly our work force >> would be great at getting whatever software somebody else writes >> packaged up and into the distro, and some level of testing on it. > > I totally understand what you're saying. I think there's a couple of > ways we could look at this then: > > 1) Remapping > > Can you think of any goals we could set, achievable by our average > skillset, that would help push us towards our vision? > > Maybe at the least, some of the things I proposed would be achievable by > packaging any necessary bits we don't already have, and packagers filing > & following up on bug fixes & enhancement requests upstream. There's > some things we could achieve forward movement on too under these goals > by changing some of the default settings in Fedora, or maybe using > package groups to make things easier to set up. > > 2) Recruiting new skills > > I think on one hand, considering the current skill sets we have is > absolutely important to make sure what we propose is achievable. On the > other hand though, if we decide to try to go somewhere awesome and work > hard at recruiting folks with the skillsets we need to make it happen, I > think it can't help but attract even more folks with those skillsets, > and pushing others to pick those skills up - starting a fire with a > spark sort of. Does that make sense or do you think it's too Pollyanna? > > ~m I think you're right on here, and starting to think in the right direction from "What can we achieve" to "how can we achieve it". I may have jumped the gun in pushing you in that direction, but I like what I'm seeing. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzjAOgACgkQ4v2HLvE71NVy9ACggePzZJUwUDvmn/mPvslBOTxX vCYAnjonO/3VAnonms9hdLXpBuvPafJm =FgN9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
