On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:28:37AM -0600, Adam Miller wrote: > Hello all, > I wanted to bring a few things up and I wanted to bring them up on > devel@xxxxxxxxxx because this is where most people spend their time. > > First off: "Does letting thousands of contributors do what they > want have a negative impact on our OS? (Mike)"[0] > - I would prefer that this be rephrased to a quote I read that > originated from John Rose (inode0) "isn't it amazing how thousands of > contributors doing whatever they want created such a spectacular OS?" > and I would prefer a focus be turned towards something like "Why was > that the result of doing something that is essentially chaotic?" .... > I guess my main question is: "Why are we fixing something that isn't > broken?" > > Second: "The Board has been working on defining a target audience > for Fedora. In response to this, some people feel that Fedora should > allow sub-groups to define their own target audience"[1] > - I don't entirely understand this, don't SIGs or (sub groups) > essentially exist purely because there is some target audience? > Clarification on this not would be appreciated. > > Now, we come to the part that I feel is going to be viewed as a > touchy subject by many..... Why are there words like "letting" and > "allow" being thrown around so often? I understand there are > guidelines and policies for certain things of technical or legal > nature in Fedora, but it feels a little like there is an attempt here > to dictate how myself, as well as all others, spend their time > contributing to The Fedora Project. > > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unfinished_Board_issues > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_TargetAudience > > I would just like to know other contributors thoughts on these topics. > > Thank you for your time, Thyank you Adam, I cannot say anything to this but, I agree with you and inode0 100% on these points. -Toshio
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