Stop spinning

Stop spinning

Posted Jan 6, 2006 23:43 UTC (Fri) by gregdek (guest, #35020)
In reply to: Stop spinning by JoeBuck
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Obviously Incorrect 2006 Predictions

Yeah, spin is bad. So let's not spin.

"Fedora Foundation is missing." False from my perspective, as I'm one of its directors :) but painfully true from yours. We have a corporate entity, and we're working on 501(c)3 status, budget, fundraising, trademark and other legal issues. We haven't announced anything yet because we'd like to have all our ducks in a row, and it certainly won't be "missing" for long -- but it's a fair complaint. Perfect is the enemy of good, and maybe we're waiting a bit too long to announce some of the salient details. But we'll figure it out. (Hey, you guys in FF-land: row harder. Oh, wait... that's me. Dammit!)

"Fedora Legacy has just failed." Truer than I'd like to admit, and a good reason to get the details around the Foundation right -- to provide Legacy with a framework to succeed. But let's not declare the patient entirely dead yet.

"Decision-making process is opaque." I have to disagree here. I will admit that you need to join some IRC meetings and email lists, keep up with Thomas Chung's excellent Fedora news, and pay attention generally, as it's a process in motion. But Fedora Extras, Fedora Docs, Fedora Translations and Fedora Ambassadors are pretty transparent, really -- for the people who are making the effort to participate.

"Impossible to contribute." Still can be frustrating to get Fedora Core folks to pay attention to bugzilla tickets. We're working on that. But that comment aside, cf. "Fedora Extras," "Fedora Docs," "Fedora Translations," "Fedora Ambassadors." Go to fedoraproject.org -- there's plenty of pretty simple ways to contribute.

Hey, sometimes a kick in the ass from LWN is a needed tonic. It's all good, baby.

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