Distrowatch on Fedora this year

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Sudheer Satyanarayana wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>>>> It wouldn't be a burden to tell the world that we are doing what we are 
>>>> doing then. One simple way to do this it to just blog more often. Our 
>>>> engineers do that sometimes but way less than ideal. 
>>> 
>>> NURRRRRR.  BZZZZZT.  WRONG WRONG WRONG.
>>> 
>>> If an engineer happens to take time out of their busy lives, and time away 
>>> from doing awesome feature work for Fedora 9, then consider it a bonus. 
>>> Expecting this from any engineer is just insane.
>> 
> If engineers start blogging(more) it would definitely be a big bonus to the 
> community. But expecting them to do so is really not insane.
>> I completely disagree. Other distributions have done a fairly good job in 
>> marketing themselves via developers and it is critically important to their 
>> successes. The community can't create the buzz for them if they don't know 
>> such features exist in the first place which is frequently the case with 
>> Fedora.
>> 
>> Kickstart the effort initially and others can pick it up once they realize 
>> that the features exist and what benefits it brings. Feature process is one 
>> way to do it. Blogging is another. We have big gaps in either. I am happy 
>> to hear other ideas to improve the situation though.
>> 
>> Rahul
>> 
> Some engineers might need the extra push. Engineers who are already blogging 
> can probably consider writing more about features. This will sure help others 
> learn more about the features. Digging out the developers' views might add a 
> different dimension altogether.
>
> Just my two cents.

Rule #1 for community building:

Ask people to do what they like doing.  Do not ask people to do what they 
do not like doing.

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