"Be excellent to each other" / Call people out for doin a good job

[Bruno Wolff III]

I was disappointed when I read through the Go / No Go meeting log tonight
when I read that we would have to slip. Then I remembered the evidence of
hard work I observed over the last couple of weeks and thought, that people
are going to notice the slip and grumble about that and forget about the
hard work a number of people put in trying to get a release we could be
proud of out on the 18th.

So I acknowledged some of that on the devel list.

Then I thought about it some more and contrasted it to some of the mailing
list issues with people making mostly negative comments when something goes
wrong or when people had disagreements. And what I thought is that we don't
do enough calling each other out for going above and beyond (either as
a volunteer or a even a Redhat employee).

I think partly is that we expect people to do a good job on Fedora and even
most of the people who participate are self motiviated or they wouldn't
be here. Still, I think being publically acknowledged by your peers for
doing something good is something that almost everyone appreciates.

I wasn't sure where to post this, as a lot of the people who should see this
probably don't read the users list. But I didn't want to put this on just
the devel list or the test lists, because I really think it is something
that should be done more by all teams. So I went with users and hope that
things will perculate back to various teams.

I think Paul is pretty good about doing this, but I think relying on the FPL
to do it all requires that he know about it and puts an extra burden on him.
I think this is something we all should be doing.

So when you see someone put in extra effort that affects you positively,
please consider thanking the person publically.

Some recent examples I have noticed:

Mike McGrath promptly dealt with an outage on a weekend a week or so ago.
I assume that Mike has a life and had to stop something he was doing that
was either fun or needed to be done in order to deal with getting koji/bodhi
working again.

Jesse Keating worked hard building RC images and spins this last week in
the run up to today's go / no go meeting. He ended up dealing with at least
a few things he really shouldn't have had to, but took care of them.

The testing / QA teams. It looked to me like the testing and QA folks
were working hard to figure out the causes of blocker bugs, get them fixed
and then tested. I don't know their names, but maybe Adam would like to
single some of them out for recognition?