On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:35 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 22:53 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > It leaves out so many ways that people can be part of the community... [snip list] > > Oh yeah! Now you're talking :-). I agree, *very* interesting. Obviously, we can pursue Rahul's idea right now (well, after F7), while we can talk about how to do the pie-in-the-sky idea. One thing we can hope for is that, for most contributors, there is a consistent default. Then even if we ask for every e.g. Wiki page save, "Was this for-pay or for-personal?" the unique default for each person is going to most often be the right one. With FAS, we have the backbone needed -- all services talk with the same account system, so all services can derive default and follow-on values, as well as write back new values when they come up. When contributing using a service such as CVS or Plone, your default is picked up, your optional values are a tab-completion away, and there is always a way to force a new value. But what these all call for is a social convention adjustment. Just as it takes effort to get a group of developers who don't use changelogs well to remember to include '-m "Something meaningful, damnit!"' for every commit. We would be asking, for example, add a keyword if it is *not* your default (cvs ci -m "Something meaningful; *sponsor=Big Company*"). So the first question is really, how do we get buy-in from across the project that the extra hassle is worth the value it brings Fedora to know where we stand at all times? - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, 108 Editor ^ Fedora Documentation Project Sr. Developer Relations Mgr. | fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject quaid.108.redhat.com | gpg key: AD0E0C41 ////////////////////////////////// \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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