Fedora sub-teams and end-of-December planning

[Larry Cafiero]

+1 on this, since we have some budget concerns that are trying to get
resolved under the end-of-the-year wire so they fall in this quarter instead
of rolling into next.

I'm around the entire holiday season.

Larry Cafiero
FAmSCo Budget Guy

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This list seems like the best place for this note, and I hope it will
> generate some discussion and planning.
>
> I remember getting back from the holiday/Christmas/end-of-calendar-year
> vacations at the start of 2010 and seeing a few discussions in which
> people were disappointed because of miscommunications and expectations
> that hadn't been properly planned for.
>
> In short:
>
> Some people's (both Red Hatters and non-Red Hatters) attitude was "ah,
> it's finally the two weeks of the year where I can ignore my computer
> completely and have a guilt-free vacation!"
>
> Other people's (again both Red Hatters and non-Red Hatters) attitude was
> "ah, it's finally the two weeks of the year where I don't have anything
> else that I have to do and I can spend more time on Fedora!"
>
> ==
>
> These two conflicting approaches to the last 2 weeks of December led to
> some frustration, in which people were trying to get stuff done for
> Fedora in that time period, but couldn't get in touch with other folks
> with whom they'd normally collaborate.
>
> I think it would be useful to have some conversations -- either in
> sub-team meetings or in this thread -- I'm not saying what the best way
> is -- so that different parts of Fedora can know ahead of time who will
> be around and who will be away from Fedora (for whatever reason) so that
> everyone can start the last two weeks of December with some transparency
> and proper expectation setting from their colleagues in the Fedora
> community.
>
> --Max
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