Distrowatch on Fedora this year

[Rahul Sundaram]

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> With Free software, the line between developers, testers, users and 
>> marketing folks often blurs. In Fedora, the "marketing team" is just a 
>> bunch of loosely organized volunteers including developers. That might 
>> be a bit troublesome to deal with it but we need to consider the 
>> feature process, blogging etc as part of our work too instead of 
>> deviation from "real work".
> 
> Wait a minute.
> 
> Feature planning is, of course, part of the "real work" of engineering, 
> and no engineer I know would claim otherwise.  I certainly didn't see 
> caillon say anything like "feature planning is a waste of my time."

I certainly got that impression that some developers consider the 
feature process as a distraction from "real work" too just like some 
consider blogging or anything that isn't directly source code as not too 
useful and I do remember my suggestion within the Fedora Board to layout 
a roadmap was considered infeasible at that time due to the culture we 
had and it has taken a long time to change that mindset a bit and we 
still have ways to go.

If you are working on something, do consider providing some information 
on what it is through whatever means possible beyond just source code or 
cryptic changelogs.

Rahul