On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 12:57 -0500, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: <snip> > > This is just my opinion and I may be wrong but something tells me this > > is heathy. > > Sure, internal drama that distracts team members from working together > and making forward progress is *always* healthy. </sarcasm> For years there has been an effort to get user base. There has been a shift toward increase collaboration base. Then the big picture is how hard is to get a new collaborators, how long you can have it on board and other related questions. Listening to internal drama may be important for people having those issues. Specially if there is value associated to keep those people on board, but outsiders (as one that his work has not been shacked) may use sarcasm to belittle others peoples feelings. Sure there is need to maintain user base, and probably branding may not be very important to newbies or casual users... Anyway they should tryout several options until they feel that they are ready to "root" themselves. When they become contributors, branding gives sense of belonging. At this point I think branding matters. Small details matters. I think about this as a bug... for some people will be disruptive, for others will be trivial. The big picture will be how important are those people that this bug is disrupting to keep the project going forward. It has been said that it is better to get one new contributor that one thousand new users (Think it was Paul Frields who wrote that on one mailing list). It took me some time to digest it, because I was on the old paradigm of creating user base. Best regards -- -- Neville A. Cross yn1v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
