Taking up work (was: Re: No more right click terminal)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>
>1) Boilerplate similar to POSTISOFFTOPIC but specifically for addressing
>issues to upstream.  A group of  volunteers to send the actual message
>whenever a post is off topic.  Everyone else agrees to ignore off-topic
>posts.
>  
>
Ok. This one is easy. Just register yourself in fedoraproject.org/wiki 
and let me know your username offlist. I will add you to the edit group. 
You can go ahead and create templates then.


>2) Start a project to package different default values for Extras.  We
>have redhat-rpm-config changing rpm and fedora-release changing the
>config of yum.  Maybe there should be a poweruser-gconf-tweaks.  (More
>seriously, it should probably be more like config-nautilus-nonspatial,
>config-rpmbuild-userdirs, config-metacity-focusfollows, etc)  this can
>work for things that just require default config changes but will not
>work for compilation/upstream code changes.
>  
>
I would prefer people working on documenting these. A good desktop users 
guide and "power" user FAQ's  for Fedora which details out the common 
changes such as these would be useful. I dont think installing different 
packages for trivial changes such as these is really a good idea. What 
if you install this package and then change the configuration to a 
conflicting value?

>3) Express interest in following upstream developments.  Encourage the
>opening of bugzilla.redhat.com bugs with upstream bug #'s for these
>issues.  There's no commitment to make changes, just a commitment to
>actively monitor what upstream has to say about the issue and if
>upstream commits to making a change, we'll do the same.
>
Oh. I just got flamed a couple of days back for telling people to report 
bugs rather than rant on IRC channels and user lists. I am supposed to 
be fixing bugzilla to be more end user friendly first. Dont ask me how. 
I have no idea

regards
Rahul