The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

[Bill Davidsen]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:23 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Chris Tyler wrote:
>>> This list, fedora-list at redhat.com, is one of the first lists that most
>>> Fedora users join, and therefore quite important to the community.
>>> However, it's a high-volume list (and is sometimes perceived to have a
>>> high noise level), so many veterans of the Fedora community aren't
>>> subscribed.
>>>
>>> As the result of discussion at the last public (IRC) board meeting, it's
>>> been proposed that narrow the scope of this list a bit. The current
>>> description of this list simply reads:
>>>
>>>    fedora-users: For users of Fedora
>>>
>>> The proposed replacement is:
>>>
>>>    fedora-users: Help and support for using the Fedora distribution.
>>>
>>> Feedback on this proposed change is welcome.
>> Historically we have avoided using the word "support" because for many 
>> people, it implied commercial support and to differentiate Fedora from 
>> RHEL. Not sure that is a problem anymore. Maybe the following is better:
>>
>> "Community help and assistance for using the Fedora distribution of Linux"
> 
> "Help" and "assistance" are synonyms, so using both would be redundant.
> The word "support" would be more in line with "succor" (um, no) or
> "encouragement" (hey, that might work!).
> 
Lately I think "sympathy" would be appropriate. :-(

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot