Fedora release cycles: longer or shorter?

http://www.kaijanmaki.net/blog/2008/03/24/networkmanager-...

Part of the project plan included a Ubuntu package specifically as a deliverable.

Let me note something very clearly. A Red Hat employee, upstream NM project developer, and Fedora contributor agree to mentor the project. A project with a plan which included Ubuntu deliverables. Isn't that interesting?

Now cynics would suggest this was a missed opportunity for Fedora. It's not and let me tell you why. The important thing here was that this work was driven upstream as a primary goal of the project...not a secondary one. That's is part of Fedora's principled approach to building a distribution..to move as much innovation into upstream projects as possible because that's how we all benefit. The student, the Ubuntu community member, got the priorities right. If only Canonical employees could understand the importance of setting those priorities in the right order.

I'll leave you with this hypothetical. If a Canonical employee had been the mentor, instead of a Red Hat employee who is deeply involved in NM development, would libmbca be an upstream GNOME module right now? Or would it be stashed in the corner of launchpad along with a set of patches against NM?

-jef