On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fedora is that better, sustainable way. It's not elitist, everyone is > welcome to participate with the understanding that part of making that > choice can involve the giving up some conveniences in the short term > in the commitment to the larger goals of a sustainable free software > ecosystem. If your not comfortable with that expectation, then we'll > warmly let you pass through on your way to another community that will > better cater to your desires. But we aren't going to cater to > unsustainable convenience food. > > 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? Thank you very much! I wish i could write as eloquent as you, would make my posts less trollish. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
