Lessons Learned

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 22.03.2007 03:12, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> I asked several times in fedora-devel list and fedora-maintainers list 
> without any consensus.

That's why FESCo and similar committee's exists, to find the consensus.
In this case I'd even said that could have been found in less then ten
minutes in a meeting.

> I setup redirects for every single renamed and I 
> have announced it to fedora-maintainers list after it was done.  The 
> move is not complete yet as indicated in the announcement so 
> categorization of the pages has not changed. I didn't do it as a board 
> member but as someone who has been involved in the website content 
> management.
> 
> If I have to jump through hoops talking to committee's before I do 
> things like these I rather not be involved.

Okay, so that means that everyone/everyone involved in the website
content can go to the wiki now and move some things around where they
would like them to belong? Interesting approach. To you really want that?

Sure, for small pages that's okay, but they are also easily moved back
or somewhere else if needed. But for a whole category of pages like
Extras/ that's IMHO a strict no go without asking the Committee that
takes care of those Pages.

> [...]

CU
thl

P.S.: Sorry Rahul, but this kind of behavior is in my humble opinion
exactly what you should *not* do when you are a Red Hat employee. We
afaics want to get the community more involved in Fedora; but from the
outside this and similar stuff looks like "well, I tried to ask the
community, but they didn't find a consensus so I simply made what I
think is right without asking anyone again". That is totally the wrong
way to get the community involved. If you want to let the community do
work for the project you have to give them the feeling they are involved
in important decisions.