On 9/10/06, nodata <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If Fedora Extras contributors are providing this extra value to RHEL, what is in it for them? Simple question.
This question saddens me greatly for several reasons. Primarily because its about a subtle a flamebait question as barbed wired is a dental floss. For shame. Are you sure you aren't a writer for OsNews or some other online "news" abomination who is delibrately ttying to astroturf for their own article? Secondarily, the question is on its face unanswerable in an authoritative manner. Particular people will "voluinteer" to help matain these additional packages builds or not for their own particular personal reasons... just as particular people choose to volunteer to help build fedora packages or not. You can only answer the question you have posed before the projecct is in operation with hypothetical maybes.. which lead to nothing but pedantic navel gazing arguments over the general value of the opprotunity. All that should matter to me or to you, as a community members, is that there is an obvious demand for these packages in the community and there are people in the community who are interested in doing the work. You and I are free to either participate in this or we are free to let it evolve without our help. But we are not free to do is to publicly nitpick their motivations. To spend time doing this is to squander community good will. I personally have absolutely no interest in maintaining the builds for enterprise or other downstream distros that I'm not actually using at present, so I'm not going to comment on how this project should be organized, nor will I gainsay the interest and motivations of the people who want to get this off the ground. If this initial group are successful enough, there will be a time when they will actively recruit for additional help and will articulate the benefits of participation based on common shared experience. Right now you either see this as a good use of your personal time or not. If you do, then there is enough information here to get you connected with other like minded people. But if you don't, then you need to keep your mouth shut and let the first group of people work on it as a cohesive unit. -jef"this is just one more step towards building a larger coordinated fedora-based ecosystems of distributrions. If this works with enterprise oriented distros, the policies and processes maybe extendable to other niche fedora-based distros"spaleta -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
