How to compete against Ubuntu
Marc Wiriadisastra
marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Tue Aug 7 16:20:42 UTC 2007
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[mailto:fedora-marketing-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Greg
Dekoenigsberg
Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 9:29 PM
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
Subject: Re: How to compete against Ubuntu
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Greg Dekoenigsberg escribió:
>>
>> Mostly I agree, but one note here: if there is one group to whom we
>> should be more aggressively "marketing", it is to potential
>> contributors. Fedora needs to be more about contributors, and
>> therefore making the lives of contributors easier.
>
> Couldn't agree more... Fedora seems to have too much "bureaucracy" for
> contributors to, well, contribute. Some might say that it is standard
> bureaucracy, but still quite cumbersome at times. Not that it is
> difficult, just messy and cumbersome at times. I know that the "others
> are not so bureaucratic" argument means nothing, at least to the many
> Fedora contributors and community members, but I've seen my share of
> complaints from "would be" contributors about just that.
Anyone want to gather the specific complaints in that regard?
I know we're working on some issues -- improving the CLA, working on a new
account management system, other small things -- but knowing the pain points
of new contributors is always important.
--g
I'll add some bits but put simply I know from my experience in trying to
package some things that documentation is the big one. Every time I package
something and let someone have a look at it I find that Im missing
something that isn't documented properly. Thats my biggest
frustration.....gnome-yum or yum-gnome scrollkeeper? Yet I can't find
anything relating to scrollkeeper and packages.
I know it's improving but that would be a start. One thing Debian does
really well is that it has a plethora of documentation on how to contribute
and everything relating to the packaging process.
I've got other questions as well but yeah while it doesn't relate directly
to bureaucracy I think it relates to contributing.
My $0.02
Marc
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