package, package2, package3 naming-with-version exploit

[Adam Williamson]

On 04/04/13 09:33 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:

> Reindl, thank you for the tip. I have one reading tip for you in
> exchange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour . Apparently,
> one man cannot do everything. But if you want to pick up my duties in
> Fedora, I'll be more than happy to solve this issue. Thank you.

There are, broadly speaking, two sources of labour for Fedora: people 
who are paid to work on it, and people who choose voluntarily to work on 
it for their own reasons.

If you want something done in Fedora and are not willing to do it 
yourself, you need to convince one of the two labour sources to do it.

This thread represents, essentially, an attempt to persuade someone from 
either group to choose to work on your idea. So far you seem to have 
been unsuccessful in that. This is not anyone's fault but yours; people 
could choose to work on your project if they wanted to, no agency is 
acting against this happening. You have a free shot at convincing them 
to do it. So far, no-one seems to be.

Your other option would be to convince one of the bodies that pays 
people to work on Fedora to pay someone to work on this (and, of course, 
that person and body would have to convince the Fedora engineering 
leadership that this was a good idea, in the end, but they could at 
least work on a proposal without any kind of approval). You are also 
entirely free to do that. I don't know if you have.

In any case, if you don't consider yourself a sufficient source of the 
necessary labour to implement your idea, it is up to you to provide the 
extra labour. There are viable routes to doing this within the Fedora 
project, as outlined above. Nothing is preventing you from trying them. 
You just don't appear to be succeeding. It happens. But it doesn't 
indicate that something is thwarting you or that some process is broken; 
it just indicates that people are not (yet?) sufficiently persuaded of 
the merits of your idea to work on it.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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