On 04/28/2011 11:19 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:22:17PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 19:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> In other words Gnome and Fedora (Both projects dominated by a single >>> enterprise) haved decided to switch their target audience. >> I wouldn't say Fedora is dominated by a single enterprise exactly, but I >> can see the characterization. It really doesn't apply to GNOME, though. >> GNOME is way broader than any single company, Novell probably >> contributes as much as we do and many other groups are involved. As a >> trivial example, when looking at the recent change in the GNOME release >> teams, I see 8 names (former, current and future team members) and I >> only recognize one as being an RHer. (I don't preclude the possibility >> I'm wrong, it's a big company. Sorry if I missed someone. :>) > We currently have 2 people on the release team who are affiliated with > Red Hat. Recently 2 persons currently affiliated with Novell left the > release team. > > Note that affiliation doesn't say much. The 2 persons affiliated with > Novell weren't affiliated with Novell when they were invited to > (&joined) the release team. > > People are not invited based on their affiliation. Solely on the work > they did (usually over multiple years) and how they'd fit into the team. > E.g. we needed an accessibility person to provide his input, so we > invited API to join. > > I always find it funny when people suggest GNOME is one corporation. So > far from reality that I cannot respond in any other way than to laugh :) [1] > > Just to avoid these kind of arguments, we've added a maximum to the > number of affiliates from the same organization: > https://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Membership > > Also note that according to the GNOME census report, 50% are paid to > work on GNOME, 50% is not. > Where is the "like" button? :-) +1 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
