[fab] final rough draft

David Barzilay barzilay at redhat.com
Tue Aug 15 17:30:25 UTC 2006


Warren Togami wrote:
> Max Spevack wrote:
>> =========================
>>
>> 3) What's changed?
>> (Score:5, Interesting)
>> by KDan
>> You mention that opinions are rooted in the world of 5 years ago. 
>> What do you think has changed in the linux world since then, and how 
>> does it affect Fedora development?
>
> I am under the impression that this question was more about the "dark 
> age" where we really screwed up our communication and priorities in 
> our relationship with the community with RHLP and Fedora at the 
> beginning. Maybe the timeframe of "5 years" is off, but this is a key 
> misunderstanding out in the community that continues to haunt us no 
> matter what progress we have made since these initial missteps.
>
> My thought is, the response sounds too much like generalized fluff 
> when we should be attacking the question directly of how we've learned 
> from our mistakes in launching a community project, what we've managed 
> to build, and how we continue to improve?
>
> I might be completely off base, I dunno.
I'm with you, Warren. We still pay a very high price for the "RHEL / FC 
forking miscommunication". This still impacts on community perceptions 
as we could recently observe with the "end of Fedora Foundation".

If transparency is one of our core values, let's use it in our favor. 
I'd say "...We DID some mistakes specially when communicating the end of 
RHL, but we've learnt a lot from our mistakes. We now have committees, 
communicators, finance specialists and other professionals working for 
Fedora Project and its sub-projects. These people, allied with community 
and Red Hat engineers, help us to better manage the projects on a 
professional fashion..."

On a related note, last week I talked to a journalist from the 2nd 
biggest daily newspaper in Brazil, who was very interested in the fact 
that I (a non-tech guy)  was working for Fedora Project. It might be 
worth to promote this and get even more contributors to different 
projects i.e. docs, trans, events, etc
>
> Warren
>
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