On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:11 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
And if that principled approach is not the most popular.. it
doesn't
mean its worth giving up. We need to shake loose the idea that being
the most popular matters. What I want is contributor targets to shoot
for. I want a clear vision by which we can recruit contributors...not
users. Maybe Mike is right and we are going to see a big dip in users
when RHEL 6 comes out and people junk to that stable offering. And
where he sees a negative. I see success.
We position this project as leading edge. If people have been using
Fedora as a forerunner to RHEL 6 and now find they want long term
stability...then great. We did exactly what we said we would do for
those people and now their needs are such that a stable base makes
mroe sense. We are NOT all things to all people. Its GOOD to see
people who need stability moving to RHEL instead of asking us to be
that as well as leading edge.
And since we don't promise to provide everything to everyone then I
fully expect to see a cyclic process in our contributor and user base.
I expect to see periods of die-off as well as growrth. I expect that
in any system which aims to be sustainable.
The issue for me is are we prepared for the cycle of renewal. Are we
prepared to recruit contributors into participating into new leading
edge directions?
I don't disagree with you in any of the above, in fact we're saying the
same thing from different directions.
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