Lessons Learned

[Mike McGrath]

Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> And to be honest, I feel it puts the people that are paid to work on
>> Fedora in an unfair position.  They are tasked with getting things done
>> in Fedora _and_ making sure the community is involved.  And at times
>> involving the community slows things down simply because the volunteers
>> aren't available during the day.  So now you have the interesting
>> situation where the paid Doers can literally accomplish more than the
>> rest of the group and therefore in a meritocracy they have an advantage
>> of being more valuable.
>
> Sometimes it works out that way -- but a lot of times it doesn't.
>
> Sometimes the paid Doers have to accomplish things that are Boring But 
> Must Be Done -- and the great advantage of unpaid Doers is that they 
> can frequently focus on the interesting/innovative work, because a 
> manager isn't breathing down their neck.
That is true, though I think I lost a lot of street cred when I got 
hired.  Even those in the know I think don't totally trust RH's actions 
but I'm not quite sure why.

    -Mike