You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net>:

> The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human
> resources and either someone needs to assign them to it if that entity
> (Red Hat/board/whatever) considers that a worthy goal, or the
> resources need to come from more voluntary people, e.g. FL needs a
> marketing manager.

I think it is both Infrastructure and lack of humans, plus stupid barriers
that shouldn't exist.

The learning curve is high, people look down at volunteers just because
they don't/won't/can't use some technology (e.g. IRC), and there is little
effort expended to get people to participate (though much flaming people
for not participating).

There is also an emphasis on getting people to only help with QA, which
is rather bad.  If you can get people to start helping however they
feel they can, they will generally and eventually start helping in
other areas.  But people generally need encouragement, and not flame
wars, insults, and barriers.

> Or the need for resources is cut by reducing the number and time span
> of supported releases.

An option, but it only makes the limited resources go further, when what
we really need are more resources...

> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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