Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Is this a Fedora project or a Red Hat project using Fedora resources?
>
> Yes.
"Yes" is not a valid answer to that "or" question.
In written English the word 'or' is not exclusive and 'yes' is a synonym for 'TRUE'. Basically the question is Stephen trying a CS pun with that of
Is this a Fedora project || a Red Hat project using Fedora resources.
It would evaluate as TRUE/yes in either case. I will break it out further
Is this a Fedora project? 'yes'
Is this a Red Hat project using resources Fedora would normally use? 'yes'
I can understand the want for making this an exclusive or, which I believe would make the answer 'No/False' because the two parts are 'true'.
> Do I need to be employed by Red Hat to be a member of the ELN SIG?
>
> No, anyone with an interest in helping will be welcomed enthusiastically!
And why would I want to do Red Hat's / IBM's work for free?
Contributing to Fedora provides value to me because I use Fedora myself. In
contrast, what would I gain from contributing to ELN?
I expect the answer is that if you want to help it will help make RHEL a better product and that will increase resources available to Fedora. I don't think that is an answer you want, but it is what I expect the answer is. In the end, Red Hat provides the majority of the resources that are used by Fedora to build its packages. It pays for the employment of a lot of people who are also working on Fedora and it owns the trademarks for Fedora. It has to ask the same question you have above of why should it put these into Fedora versus something else. The answer is that it gets a place to put in SIGs and deliverables which help it continue to function. (Again maybe not an answer we like, but an answer).