On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > So let me step into my handy Tardis and bring back a vignette from the > Real World after Fedora and other distributions bless upstream app > distribution as a preferred channel: I'm not sure I can match this for evocativeness, but: > Manager: ...so, executive summary: you're saying you'd _like_ to spend a > not insubstantial chunk of your fairly expensive time working to jump > through some hoops so our Shiny New Application can be included in these > 'downstream distribution' things, but if I insist, you can whack a > button to put it in the Linux App Store and we can go to press with our > announcement tomorrow? > > Well-Intentioned Techie A: (gulps)...yes. > > Manager: Whack that button, techie. Whack it hard. Now get out of my > office, I have to call the PR department. In a different future where there is no such magic button, what brings enlightenment to the manager? I think maybe the conversation goes much like yours, except with "and don't bother me about 'getting into downstream distributions' again". -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct