Fedora Community: Under threat?

[John Morrison]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:02, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> I've been a RHL and FC user for quite some time. I've been on the
> mailing lists, and had bugzilla accounts for a long time now. But this
> mailing list is strangling itself. The volume is way too high. Look at
> the beginning of the Fedora Project and see how many Red Hat engineers
> regularly posted to this list, and now look at how many do (Tim Waugh
> and Dave Jones make an occasional appearance here these days, and we're
> lucky to have them). That's it. Who's driven them away? WE HAVE.
> 
> I work for a living. I have no idea what most of the other people on
> this list do, but I often feel in a minority. This list should have a
> narrow focus, restricted to using Fedora, and that's it. But instead we
> have all manner of ridiculous threads, not all of them flame wars, that
> go on and on and on. For the last couple of months I actually suspended
> delivery from this list because I just couldn't cope with the volume.
> Even as it is, I skim through messages, quite possibly missing things
> that i could either learn from or help others with just because there is
> too much traffic. Who's at fault? Well there is no one else to blame but
> ourselves. We *are* the list. Either we decide to only respond to
> genuine questions and issues, and ignore the trolls and flame-bait, or
> we give into our urges and wreck this community completely. Given the
> traffic the last couple of days I have myself considered unsubscribing.
> Which is a shame, as whilst that flame war was going on I was helping
> someone who was a complete newbie actually install Fedora. Shame on
> everyone who perpetuated that total waste of time with so little
> consideration for the silent majority on this list.
> 
> All of you can say, "If you don't like the heat get out of the kitchen",
> but if the temperature gets any hotter so many people might leave that
> the Fedora community might end up as one long slanging match like the
> Debian community is. I assume that that is not what we want.
> 
> So could all of us think twice about what to reply to? If someone says
> something stupid, or slags us off, or asks a question they could clearly
> answer for themselves if they just tried, how about just ignoring them?
> How about all of us exercising a little restraint?
> 
> Best, Darren
> 
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> D. D. Brierton            darren at dzr-web.com          www.dzr-web.com
>        Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson)
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Hi,

Well said, that about sums it up for me too.

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