On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, seth vidal wrote:
why do you think fedora-maintainers is closed to posts from non-maintainers?
it was decided by a group of red hat and non red hat fedora contributors at the pre-fudcon meetings. Mostly to keep the signal/noise ratio down.
Yeah, backroom deals keep the riff-raff out and the surprise in a relationship, all right. And the trains all run on time. It is just has little to do a democratic process.
George Orwell had this one called: The only Community in Fedora is for those pigs who are more equal than others. It is rank hypocrisy to proclaim oneself a community, when power and privilege of insider status are reserved to a small elite.
-- Russ Herrold
