Contributor burn Out

[Brian Pepple]

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 12:42 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 10/20/10 10:15 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > I'm sensing a growing frustration from some of the people who have
> > been heavily involved in Fedora for a long time, a sense of burnout.
> > We've all felt it from time to time.  The lack of people stepping
> > forward to take on leadership tasks, such as the Spins SIG leader, the
> > election coordinator, and similar is concerning to me.  Am I alone in
> > this?
> 
> You're not alone.  I'm one of those with burn out.  I'll tell you why
> too.  We've had obviously poisonous people in our communities for years,
> and as a project we seem to be unable to either convince them to spend
> their energy elsewhere, or force the issue.  Instead we let them
> continue to spew over our email lists, our bugzilla, our IRC channels,
> etc...  It's quite frustrating, particularly when these people pick up
> "followers" who think it's OK to keep doing crap like that.  I've yet to
> see an effective policy or proposal on how to deal with this.  Show me a
> candidate who has one, I'll vote for 'em.

Jesse pretty much described the exact reason why I spend much less time
contributing to Fedora these days than I did in the past.

Later,
/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>

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