Regarding personnel changes in Fedora

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:53 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 02:38 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Generally, for any of these paid positions at RH,  announcements will go
>> out
>> to Planet Fedora at the least, and occasionally the list. Other companies
>> may have roles in Fedora they pay people for, and that is up to them how
>> they advertise it.
>
> Well Red Hat is also very good at inventing Fedora positions and planting
> people in the more often then not outside the community thou the corporate
> has been getting better at recruiting community members to fill those
> positions. Which certainly is good for the community member who gets to fill
> that position but arguably not so much for the project or the community in
> whole which depends on the position and the relevant corporate interest
> behind it.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.  With the exception of maybe 2 or 3
people on that wiki page, all of them have either been on Fedora since
it's inception or hired directly from the community.  Also, I don't see
how the project is worse off having people being paid to improve it.

> Arguably for each of these paid corporate positions within the project they
> should be presided with <corporate><position> and or <team>.
>
> So "Fedora_Engineering" would become "Red Hat's Fedora Engineering" and
> let's for example say that Intel had a people working within the project it
> would be called "Intel's Fedora Engineering" and all of this listed under
> Fedora Engineering page in our wiki.

That could be done, but I don't see what purpose it would serve.

> Of course listing non paid community members first since their contribution
> is more valuable then those that are doing this as a part of their $dayjob
> =)

Our community members are invaluable.  Whether they are paid or not and
by whom is immaterial.

If the intention of your questions are to somehow disparage or devalue
people in the community simply because they are paid to work on Fedora,
then you can consider this my last reply.  I have neither the time nor
inclination to suffer questioning that serves no purpose other than
attempting to fracture the community.

josh