On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
So let me step into my handy Tardis and bring back a vignette from
the
Real World after Fedora and other distributions bless upstream app
distribution as a preferred channel:
I'm not sure I can match this for evocativeness, but:
Manager: ...so, executive summary: you're saying you'd _like_
to spend a
not insubstantial chunk of your fairly expensive time working to jump
through some hoops so our Shiny New Application can be included in these
'downstream distribution' things, but if I insist, you can whack a
button to put it in the Linux App Store and we can go to press with our
announcement tomorrow?
Well-Intentioned Techie A: (gulps)...yes.
Manager: Whack that button, techie. Whack it hard. Now get out of my
office, I have to call the PR department.
In a different future where there is no such magic button, what brings
enlightenment to the manager? I think maybe the conversation goes much like
yours, except with "and don't bother me about 'getting into downstream
distributions' again".
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Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>