F8 EOL messaging

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Great, so you'll release them just to annoy the sysadmins out there who now
>> have to test and apply them when they'd normally be spending time with
>> family and friends?
>>
>> There are very few people benefited by releasing updates over the holidays.
>> Not zero, but very few.
>
> But aren't vacations of this sort an opportunity for volunteers to
> spend more time on Fedora exactly because they have more free time
> then?
> Do people work on Fedora as a job or as a hobby. Do they work during
> free time or during business hours like staffed professionals?
>
> Some of the most important questions a volunteer organisation can ask
> itself are about the volunteer relationship is how to accommodate the
> fact that volunteers can be more productive during leisure hours.
>

Most folks have a day job. Their day job might not be working on 
fedora, but it is a day job. I don't feel bad about not asking volunteers to 
sacrifice a common holiday.

-sv