On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Christopher Aillon wrote:
It wouldn't be a burden to tell the world that we are doing what we are
doing then. One simple way to do this it to just blog more often. Our
engineers do that sometimes but way less than ideal.
NURRRRRR. BZZZZZT. WRONG WRONG WRONG.
If an engineer happens to take time out of their busy lives, and time away
from doing awesome feature work for Fedora 9, then consider it a bonus.
Expecting this from any engineer is just insane.
If engineers start blogging(more) it would definitely be a big bonus to the
community. But expecting them to do so is really not insane.
I completely disagree. Other distributions have done a fairly good job in
marketing themselves via developers and it is critically important to their
successes. The community can't create the buzz for them if they don't know
such features exist in the first place which is frequently the case with
Fedora.
Kickstart the effort initially and others can pick it up once they realize
that the features exist and what benefits it brings. Feature process is one
way to do it. Blogging is another. We have big gaps in either. I am happy
to hear other ideas to improve the situation though.
Rahul
Some engineers might need the extra push. Engineers who are already blogging
can probably consider writing more about features. This will sure help others
learn more about the features. Digging out the developers' views might add a
different dimension altogether.
Just my two cents.
Rule #1 for community building:
Ask people to do what they like doing. Do not ask people to do what they
do not like doing.
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