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[Rahul Sundaram]

Chris Weyl wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Chris Weyl wrote:
>>> Not to be blunt, but "too bad".  That's why we're called
>>> "maintainers", and they are "end users".
>> Maintainers are supposed to serve and meet end user needs and not the other
>> way around.
> 
> That would be completely true IF we were being paid for this;
> otherwise we have to acknowledge that it's a matter of enlightened
> self-interest to contribute.  Right?

False dichotomy.

Regardless of whether you are paid to do it or not, you are there to 
meet users and community needs. I would argue more so, if you are 
volunteer since the people who are doing it just because they are 
getting paid are doing it for the money instead of the users. I don't 
think anybody in the Fedora community is that way.

If you don't even want to try, you might as well as stop doing it and 
enlightened self interest isn't incompatible with serving users needs at 
all. In fact, your enlightened self interest must compel you to work 
together with other contributors to do a good job of it instead of 
excusing yourself because you are volunteer just like the majority in 
this community.

If you read the guidelines, they are very simple common sense items that 
package maintainers have been expected to follow all along. I am merely 
documenting them for everybody's benefit especially new maintainers.

Rahul