On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:22 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:06:31 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > I must say I'm a bit disappointed by this action too, lately there has been a > > lot of uproar that those "managing" Fedora seem to have lost touch with the > > "workfloor". This award to me confirms that there is an in-crowd, an old boys > > network, and the rest of us. And to get into this in-crowd one mainly must do a > > lot of irc-meetings and mailing, actually working oneself into sweat isn't enough. > > > > I'm sad to say that these awards mainly seems to be about who can (social) > > network the most, and not necessarily about contributing. > > > > With this I in no way mean to put down the great work done by most of the award > > receivers. However I do see a drift forming here between some kinda in-crowd > > and the rest, which is an alarming development. > > Well said. > > What surprised and disappointed me the most is that this award covers a > time-span of several years, not just 2007. And that after years, on one > hand, "it is difficult to sometimes give recognition" (quoting gdk) and on > the other hand it is that easy to come up with an extreme like this award. I would like to point out that you are complaining about nothing more than these people's names on a web page. That's all the award is. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
