On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:11 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > And if that principled approach is not the most popular.. it doesn't > mean its worth giving up. We need to shake loose the idea that being > the most popular matters. What I want is contributor targets to shoot > for. I want a clear vision by which we can recruit contributors...not > users. Maybe Mike is right and we are going to see a big dip in users > when RHEL 6 comes out and people junk to that stable offering. And > where he sees a negative. I see success. > > We position this project as leading edge. If people have been using > Fedora as a forerunner to RHEL 6 and now find they want long term > stability...then great. We did exactly what we said we would do for > those people and now their needs are such that a stable base makes > mroe sense. We are NOT all things to all people. Its GOOD to see > people who need stability moving to RHEL instead of asking us to be > that as well as leading edge. > > And since we don't promise to provide everything to everyone then I > fully expect to see a cyclic process in our contributor and user base. > I expect to see periods of die-off as well as growrth. I expect that > in any system which aims to be sustainable. > > The issue for me is are we prepared for the cycle of renewal. Are we > prepared to recruit contributors into participating into new leading > edge directions? I don't disagree with you in any of the above, in fact we're saying the same thing from different directions. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
