Mike McGrath (mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > I really don't know what our users are a measure of. I don't think it's > marketing as inode0 suggests, because the people using Fedora already know > about it. But if we step back and take our users seriously. We'll find > that since Fedora Core 6 released in 2006-10-24 to today, we've > experienced a net growth of negative 3%. Yup, a 3% loss of users. > > Our own users are moving _AWAY_ from Fedora. For whatever reason more > users have chosen to not use Fedora then who have chosen to use Fedora. > I suspect many have moved downsteam to Enterprise Linux. Which is ok > but it's an indication that people came, tried Fedora, and moved on. This is, IMO, the crux of the problem. While I'm all for increasing our contributor community, if all we're doing is creating our own thing for *just* this contributing community, I'd be rather said. After all, if we're not going to try to do something big, why bother? :) Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel