Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Feb 23 16:00:49 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:25 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> [repost]
> 
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:17:36 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 23 February 2007 07:35, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > * heavy use of Red Hat internal mailing-lists for Fedora related matters,
> > 
> > This is complete BS.
> 
> Disagree as much as you like, but please avoid the strong language.
> 

This is not an opinion to disagree on, Jesse is simply stating that you
have the facts wrong (in colorful language...)

> > Maybe one or three messages a month pop up on internal 
> > lists, and those are immediately redirected to external lists.
> 
> Repeatedly, there have been references to relevant topics on internal
> lists, involving Fedora or Core. I've pointed out a few examples long
> ago. With regard to the Fedora Merge, most recent is this one:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg00577.html
> 
> Now, I guess somebody will deny that it's relevant discussion. Still, you
> cannot deny that internal lists plus interal IRC plus additional forms of
> internal communication don't do a community project any good when public
> communication channels are criticised for their poor s/n ratio.

I hope you agree that a company needs internal communication channels.

Do you also object to us talking to our cube neighbours directly, rather
than using public irc ?






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