Response to "Getting Fedora Out of the If-Then Loop"
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Fri Feb 19 18:45:20 UTC 2010
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Josh Boyer wrote:
> And don't think I'm sitting here being some kind of status quo
> sympathizer. I know first hand what it's like to have resources either
> shift away from something you care about or not be at the same level as
> other things inherently. It happend with PPC. However, I also know
> that it is something that is going to happen from time to time and
> pretending that we as a project could magically make everything be equal
> is going to both fail and just feed into more bad blood. Interests and
> time will fall where people have interest and time.
Some resources are not zero-sum. Package maintaners, for instance. Want
more package maintainers for Xfce packages? Go find them and convince
them to help.
Some resources are zero-sum. Want to be on the front page of fp.o? Too
bad; there's only so much space. Also: disk space.
The key challenge, IMHO, is to provide reasonable access to zero-sum
resources to as many projects as possible, while maintaining a focus on
the critical path, as the Board has defined it: i.e. the best possible
experience for the most popular and well-resourced spin. The definition
of "reasonable" will always be the subject of healthy debate.
I believe that there *is* a great deal of sensitivity to providing
resources for spins. There are continuing plans to raise the profile of
the spins page; those plans just haven't all been implemented yet. Look
at the design of spins.fp.o; it's fantastic, and we clearly would not see
that degree of work if it were throwaway. We just haven't had time to
revamp the rest of the site yet to take advantage.
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