On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:17:38AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:49:34 -0700, > Robyn Bergeron <rbergero@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > (That said, we have seen a dramatic drop in the number of FADs > > sponsored; I don't think this is necessarily a sign of anything > > concrete, except perhaps (a) people have forgotten that this > > resource exists, or (b) we have fewer people working on new projects > > or solving problems that they are excited about, and can produce > > results face-to-face more rapidly. I suspect the latter may be the > > case, and is certainly troubling, but is a topic not really for this > > email.) > > My (possibly selective) memory is that Paul instigated a lot of the FADs > when he was FPL. Since his job change he has had to cut back his time and > probably isn't in a position to see the needs and push for setting up FADs > as much as he used to be able to. In one sense, Bruno's statement confused me, because I only recall helping to drive a handful of FADs when I was FPL. Then in another sense it made me feel happy someone thought I was doing a good job with those. At least I think that's what he meant, so thanks for the kind words Bruno! :-) But in truth, I recall most of the FADs during my FPL time being driven by other Fedora contributors. What I do recall doing is talking about FADs often, and when good ideas came up, suggesting to the key contributors involved that they should organize a FAD event once they had a plan for the work. It does seem like there were more of them a couple years ago than perhaps there were in the last year. But unfortunately the last part of Bruno's statement is only too accurate; I definitely don't get the time for Fedora these days that I used to. However, since I didn't really drive many of the FADs personally I suspect -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
