On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, Zarafa is getting a lot of press attention: > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6298 > > some of it is fairly unflattering: > > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3877446/Fedora-13-Beta-The-Seen-and-Troubling-Unseen.htm > > I'm a bit uncomfortable with this myself; the availability of Zarafa in > Fedora seems to be being read in ways in which we certainly didn't > intend it (as an aspect of commercialization, as some kind of Red > Hat-parachuted feature and hence an indication of RH's future > directions, etc). > > I'm wondering if perhaps we should pull Zarafa's mention as a 'feature' > of Fedora 13, or if not that, then certainly develop a more coherent > story about its inclusion, what it's for, why it's in Fedora, and the > whole 'open core' angle on it... > > What do people think? >From experience with past releases, pulling it now will just get a lot of press of another Red Hat 'FAIL' or confirmation that it was a future direction. Its a no win situation with some kinds of press and for others they just need to know what is really going on and they will correct themselves. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
