FUDCon/F9 survey

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:09:25 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> [...] (I now and then in private get comments
> from some long term contributers that indicate I'm not the only one who
> thinks a lot of things for volunteer contributer got a lot worse over
> the past 12 months [since the merge]).

That's normal. There are contributors (and sometimes "ordinary" Fedora
users) who hunt for committee members in private mail, looking for a
reliable person, a community representative. Sometimes they explicitly ask
to treat their letter and name confidentially. If you have seldomly
something to criticize on public communication channels, you are less
interesting or probably even uninteresting to them. Probably one can
increase the likelihood of being contacted and influence it with heavy use
of an official looking e-mail signature plus use of the fedoraproject.org
address. I don't know how you feel about it, but I didn't feel good in
such situations.