Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mostly I agree, but one note here: if there is one group to whom we > should be more aggressively "marketing", it is to potential > contributors. Fedora needs to be more about contributors, and > therefore making the lives of contributors easier. Oh, just realized the obviousness of that truth! Man, even I got "too focused" on solely "user base" before you pointed that out. ;) BTW, I recently had an off-list e-mail and realized history was partially repeating itself. I went back to my archives from 1999 and, especially, 2000-2003. Then I saw the same pattern. - New off-shoot distro gains fan-fare, "better than Red Hat" - New off-shoot distro offers major, commercial support - Off-shoot distro strays too far from original, stable base - Off-shoot distro as trouble maintaining updates, upgrades, development after its 4th release and fork away from original, stable base - Off-shoot distro has lay-offs, drops several support offerings - Off-shoot distro starts merging with other distro companies Last time I checked recently, PCLinux OS is still "picking up the pieces" of all that. ;) -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
