>I feel this model assumes that maintainership is the only meritorious >activity in fedora. I think that other meritorious activities such as >useful analysis of plans and the occasional proposal of alternative >solutions also is meritorious. Im not talking about backseat coding here >but rather offering an alternative perspective to create a well-rounded >view of the goal and the bumps in the path to get there as well as some >suggestions to traverse the trail efficiently. If it is the position of >redhat that this isnt the case i understand but i think it is a mistake >to limit input to that one group. No, in fact, quite the contrary. We already raised this issue people can recommend/sponsor other non-packagers for inclusion on that list. I fully realize there are lots of non-packging meritous contributions to fedora. > >My best suggestion is to open the "new dev list" (aka maintainers) to >people that serve other valuable roles or who routinely inject >intelligent ideas into conversation on fedora-devel. Essentially i like >the idea of a moderated list because i grow weary of a thread with 512 >msgs (slimfast slimfest) because it takes half my morning to weed >through it and very few users read it and end up asking the same >questions elsewhere in the list. And I read every post on the thread. Sad huh? :) But if you want to help in that way then read through every message and work with Colin Charles on reviving the Fedora News Updates. And guess what- that also means you're contributing usefully. I really don't think it is inappropriate to try to get folks to contribute in order to be able to be more involved in the decision making process. -sv
