Re: Distrowatch on Fedora this year

[Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk redhat com>]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> With Free software, the line between developers, testers, users and 
> marketing folks often blurs. In Fedora, the "marketing team" is just a 
> bunch of loosely organized volunteers including developers. That might 
> be a bit troublesome to deal with it but we need to consider the feature 
> process, blogging etc as part of our work too instead of deviation from 
> "real work".

Wait a minute.

Feature planning is, of course, part of the "real work" of engineering, 
and no engineer I know would claim otherwise.  I certainly didn't see 
caillon say anything like "feature planning is a waste of my time."

Blogging can certainly be useful in gathering momentum around an idea, 
yes.  But that doesn't mean it should be compulsory.

--g

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