Re: What we're forgetting . . .

[Tres Seaver <tseaver palladion com>]

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David Eisenstein wrote:
> As we continue to talk over where Fedora Legacy is going, and what distro's
> should or shouldn't be maintained by us, it occurs to me that we are
> forgetting some important things ....
> 
>    *  How many contributors do we have now that get the work of Fedora
>       Legacy done, and how many of those will still be around when we make
>       any changes to the distros we maintain?
> 
>    *  How many new contributors might we get onboard when we make (or
>       perhaps decide not to make some) distro changes to do the work of
>       Fedora Legacy?  Will such new people be experienced in submitting
>       patches, rolling packages, or will there need to be a ramp-up time?
> 
>    *  Will the proposed infrastructure changes make it easier to be a
>       contributor to the Legacy project?
> 
>    *  Do we need more contributors involved to help us continue to get
>       our work done?  If so, how do we go about getting them?
> 
> In short, "How can we plan for Legacy's continued vitality and usefulness?"
> 
> Jesse Keating and I have done some collaboration on a starter document in
> Fedora Legacy's wiki looking at some questions like these, with some
> proposed answers at  <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/Status>.  The
> document discusses (1) What (resources) do we have?  (2)  What do we need?,
> and (3) Where are we going?

As an "occasional 'verify' QA tester for FC1, my interest and
involvement with FL stops at the moment FC1 is dropped.  I am, in fact,
testing my migration options right now for the one remote box on which I
(grudgingly) accepted FC1 (it seemed a lesser-of-evils choice at the time).


Tres.
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