On Wed, 2025-01-08 at 20:43 -0800, Brendan Conoboy wrote: > Over the last few months on chat.fp.o and at conferences I have > started joining into conversations- listening, asking questions, > making assertions, telling bad jokes. All this activity has led to a > recurring question by many people in the community, “uhh, who are > you?” > > ... > But this isn’t just an introduction, this is a reintroduction. My > first foray into the Fedora community, beyond just running Fedora, > was in 2012 when my team at Red Hat started to explore the potential > for ARM servers. We, with many of you, bootstrapped armv7hl, then > aarch64. We started with a Seneca College partnership, we gave away > hardware, we made ugly uboot hacks, ported hundreds of packages, > helped establish the Linaro Enterprise Group to do more ports & > standardization, and solved seemingly thousands of circular > dependencies- and hired a bunch of great contributors along the way, > folks like Marcin Juszkiewicz and Paul Whalen. Several of us took > what we learned from the experience and replicated the work inside > Red Hat with RHEL 7, first for ppc64le, then aarch64- two > architectures that are mainstream in RHEL today, but scarcely existed > a decade ago. For me that evolved into driving general RHEL > development as an individual, then management, then last year I had > the opportunity to come back to support Red Hat’s Linux communities > in general and Fedora in particular. > Ahh, the perfect person to deal with our s390x capacity crunch ;) > I think it’s fair to say that most of the RHEL management team has, > as a whole, tended to be hands-off in Fedora’s affairs. There are > some notable exceptions of course, but on average, most people > working as managers are less involved in Fedora. There’s no written > rule about this, so for my part I’ve inferred that most managers > don’t think they have a lot of value to contribute compared to the > people who they manage who are engaged in Fedora. Even in writing > this blog I feel apprehensive: do I have anything to say people want > to hear? Maybe just one thing… > Thank you for engaging! I agree with your analysis, and happen to think that more engagement from management - done properly - is a good thing. After all certain issues require investment to fix, and Fedora depends on Red Hat for its infrastructure... Looking forward to your next posts, and future collaborations, Best regards, -- _o) Michel Lind _( ) identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2
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