> I think this is mostly a problem with any formalized 'organization'. > Lets just say that a long time ago, Red Hat east and Red Hat west would > say the same things you say above.. The reality was that both had > deadlines, social politics, and other items that made it easier for > something to get done if you got 10 seconds of face time than if you > sent an email. > > I have seen the same things at Academic institutions where getting the > time/effort of someone in your Astro department is always easier than > getting it from Biology. After a while, everyone in Astro knows that > Biology is a bunch of lazy losers because you can never get them to do > something you need. > > It is also a personality problem of most people that the perceived > amount of time to communicate that something has come up is longer than > the actual time to do so. EG it seems easier to try and finish the 100 > lines of code that the guy down the hall really needs for his work to be > done, than to tell the 20 people who arent inside the building and > coming by the cubicle every 10 minutes that you are going to be late or > their features have to be dropped. > > So in the end, people outside of Red Hat feel shitted on, the people > inside of Red Hat dont understand why people are always picking on them, > and eventually some psycology doctorate gets another paper on the > insanity of mankind. That's all fine and good, in the meantime while the psychology student gets his/her paper fedora has fallen apart and it useless to both red hat and the users. -sv
