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

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:46:54PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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?

What a great thread to start, Bruno -- I would love to see more of
this kind of sentiment daily in Fedora. :-) Some of my additions...

The Anaconda team pours their hearts and souls into *every single
Fedora release*.  This is one of the hardest jobs in Fedora, because
there are so many use cases to cover in the installer.  Because so
many people use the installer, even a great release brings them a high
volume of bugs (and not all of them are filed in high spirits as you
might imagine).  Special thanks are due to Dave Lehman, Chris Lumens,
and David Cantrell for responding quickly to problems during crunch
time such as emergency builds and critical blocker fixes for F-13.
Clyde Kunkel, one of the volunteers in our community, did a huge
amount of Anaconda testing and bug-filing that helped these developers
create a better product.

Mel Chua and Robyn Bergeron on the Fedora Marketing team did numerous
sprints over this release to prepare everything from release
announcements to feature profiles, making sure that people outside our
community know about some of the features coming in the new release.

Our translation teams are largely volunteer-driven.  On a very short
deadline, our Czech, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian,
Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Chinese, and Russian teams have provided
a full set of release notes for F-13 release day.  Regrettably, there
are way too many people to name on those teams, but they are all
AMAZING.

Rudiger Landmann is a quiet but industrious fellow in Brisbane who
works in Red Hat's Documentation team, and he has helped immensely
throughout the release with fixing documentation builds, publishing
draft guides, and ensuring that we were working smoothly with our many
translation teams.

This email's going to get way too long if I keep going, so I'll stop
there for now and encourage other people to continue this thread.

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