[Fedora-marketing-list] RH making fun of us ?

[Thomas Canniot]

Le vendredi 01 septembre 2006 à 02:28 +0530, Rahul a écrit :
> Thomas Canniot wrote:
> > Did I miss something, or RH CTO has problem with Fedora first Myth ?
> > 
> > http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/news/2006/08/25/195490.htm?p=ica
> > 
> > "We're convinced that there is a better way to develop software, so what
> > we did is we blew up the notion of an Alpha and we use Fedora as an
> > alpha."
> > 
> 
> Followed by
> 
> "The engineers are goaled on not just producing enterprise quality 
> software, but driving it through upstream in terms of the community.
> 
> In the early days it was about providing a version of Linux that is 
> differentiated somehow; instead it's now about how do we participate in 
> the upstream projects through Fedora.
> "
> 
> I send this over to Max Spevack  and we had a discussion with Brian 
> Stevens and others in the Fedora Board about this already. I think what 
> is being said is very much right but the choice of terminology in the 
> middle is obsoletely bad.
> 
> However it's always a good idea to read things in context. For one, this 
> was a live interview and the question was "where is the alpha for 
> RHEL?". From the perspective of Red Hat Enterprise Linux development 
> there is no alpha release for it since Red Hat has been investing its 
> efforts into driving changes upstream through Fedora instead.
> 
> I would read encourage everyone to read the full interview instead of 
> choice quotes.
> 
> 
> > What about Spevack 8th question in his interview on /.?
> > 
> > Where do we stand ?
> 
> Exactly where we have stood for a long time now.
> 
> > 
> > What to say to people now ?
> 
> As I already said in http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/6407.html, 
> alpha and beta releases are "bad" choice of words because they convey 
> more than one thing.
> 
>  From a perspective of ongoing development, Brian Stevens is right but 
> they also have some amount of negative tones associated with them due to 
> perceived impact on the quality or robustness of what Fedora itself is.
> 
> > One thing : thanks a lot.
> > 
> 
> It was no fun for everyone involved. We will to have collecting work on 
>   saying things without the negativity. Apologies if you that put you in 
> a tight ring.
> 
> Rahul
> 

I lose bits of my temper as Fedora is being insulted on the most popular
French Linux website. 

http://linuxfr.org/comments/749231.html


Everybody is working very hard on this, as you know. It is just deeply
frustrating.

Thanks for your reply, i'll have a tea in my fedora cup to calm down.


-- 
Thomas Canniot
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasCanniot
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