On 05/11/2010 10:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I was disappointed when I read through the Go / No Go meeting log tonight > when I read that we would have to slip. Then I remembered the evidence of > hard work I observed over the last couple of weeks and thought, that people > are going to notice the slip and grumble about that and forget about the > hard work a number of people put in trying to get a release we could be > proud of out on the 18th. > > So I acknowledged some of that on the devel list. > > Then I thought about it some more and contrasted it to some of the mailing > list issues with people making mostly negative comments when something goes > wrong or when people had disagreements. And what I thought is that we don't > do enough calling each other out for going above and beyond (either as > a volunteer or a even a Redhat employee). > > I think partly is that we expect people to do a good job on Fedora and even > most of the people who participate are self motiviated or they wouldn't > be here. Still, I think being publically acknowledged by your peers for > doing something good is something that almost everyone appreciates. > > I wasn't sure where to post this, as a lot of the people who should see this > probably don't read the users list. But I didn't want to put this on just > the devel list or the test lists, because I really think it is something > that should be done more by all teams. So I went with users and hope that > things will perculate back to various teams. > > I think Paul is pretty good about doing this, but I think relying on the FPL > to do it all requires that he know about it and puts an extra burden on him. > I think this is something we all should be doing. > > So when you see someone put in extra effort that affects you positively, > please consider thanking the person publically. > > Some recent examples I have noticed: > > Mike McGrath promptly dealt with an outage on a weekend a week or so ago. > I assume that Mike has a life and had to stop something he was doing that > was either fun or needed to be done in order to deal with getting koji/bodhi > working again. > > Jesse Keating worked hard building RC images and spins this last week in > the run up to today's go / no go meeting. He ended up dealing with at least > a few things he really shouldn't have had to, but took care of them. > > The testing / QA teams. It looked to me like the testing and QA folks > were working hard to figure out the causes of blocker bugs, get them fixed > and then tested. I don't know their names, but maybe Adam would like to > single some of them out for recognition? To be honest, I couldn't even imagine where to begin. I stand in awe of everyone from the deep-dive developers to the docs team to the translation volunteers to the UI developers, both at Red Hat and in the community. Sometimes I get to feeling like I know a fair amount about Linux, but then I start following some of the threads on fedora-devel and I'm instantly humbled. As someone who typically works with RHEL, not Fedora, every time I get to fire up a Fedora box I am just blown away at how cool it is, and how rapidly it expands and improves. So I can't really single any one person out, but I can say that I am incredibly grateful to - and humbled by - everyone who participates in the Fedora project. -- Regards, Thomas -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
