Is there anything we can do to better clear up understandings like this? -Mike ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 12:30:38 -0600 From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: EPEL development disccusion <epel-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> To: EPEL development disccusion <epel-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: sponsorship from RH ? On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> Issues w/ CentOS should be reported to CentOS. >> Issues w/ EPEL should be reported to redhat. >> > > ** NOT DIRECTED AT Gilboa ** > > This comment bugs me to my very core since RedHat has had so little to > do with EPEL. I'm proud of this fact but it frustrates me not as a RH > employee but as someone that was a Fedora volunteer before I was hired at > RH. EPEL's steering comittee and much of the work that came to make it a The big issue with the confusion is that Fedora's bugzilla is Red Hat's bugzilla. So if I want to push an EPEL bug I report to "redhat". If I want to report a fedora bug.. I report to "redhat". This is one area where Red Hat's brand squashes Fedora's brand in people's minds. Squashes it dead. People will equate EPEL == Red Hat for many reasons.. but that is the one that stands out in my mind the most. (next to epel-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx versus fedoraproject.org or some such thing). > reality and what it is today was done not by RH but by volunteers. EPEL > is a team, they get support from Fedora, who gets support from RH sure. > Even the RH employees that were and are involved do a lot of it in their > free time. But EPEL is a team of people and even though it's young, i'ts a > mature organization that can and does deal with its own issues. > > -Mike > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel-list mailing list > epel-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
