Distrowatch on Fedora this year
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Mon Dec 17 18:46:01 UTC 2007
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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