Mike McGrath wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:Bill Nottingham wrote:Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:In a simplied form: Whether you are paid to do some work in Fedora or not.Even if someone is paid to work on some part of Fedora, that doesn't meanthey're paid for all their contributions to Fedora. For example, I don't*think* that Red Hat is explicitly paying Jens to maintain Haskell bindingsfor Gtk+.This is precisely why having a field with this information per package in the package database is useful.This sounds like bloat to me. While this is something we could do, is it really something we should?
I think it is useful to understand the nature of contributions. It has some up several times before in various discussions that we had in the past about strength of the Fedora community and vendor participation.
Rahul
