Thoughts on legacy...

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Warren Togami <warren at togami.com>:

> >>in the queue forever. But with Fedora Legacy, the project should have
> >>tried to be ready 1-2 months ago already and know exactly how to get an
>
> "should have" is unhelpful.  I had hoped that the so called "leaders"
> who had stepped forward many months ago at certain companies and
> Universities that supposedly depend on this software and its continuance
> would have taken the necessary initiative and prepare things.

Several of us non-leaders tried to step forward to help.  We were told a line
of gibberish about using such and such IRC, such and such wiki, etc.  But I
don't use IRC.  I don't know what wiki is or how to use it.  I was being
asked to do stuff, without directions, that I didn't know how to do, and
didn't know why I needed to do them.  So nothing happened....

This happened on several projects I tried to get into.  So, I did nothing
but lurk...  Sad.  I could contribute, but am being blocked from doing so
because no one will take the time to help me get up to speed on the
infrastructure the aledged "leaders" want to impose on the community.

> But sadly early in December this project had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, and it
> appeared that nothing would be done.  I then wrote the first draft of
> the launch plan and sent it to those who expressed wanting to be
> leaders.  I had ZERO responses from these people.  The rest you have
> seen on this list.

More is coming.  The project is *way* behind schedule.  Hopefully it will
survive.  But it needs leadership.  And the leadership needs to be helpful
to newbies, or it will all land on the leadership's hands instead of being
spread around the community.  And if that happens, it will probably fail,
and quickly.

> Warren

I for one noticed and appreciated everything Warren did.  He is probably
the main reason this project has not yet failed, or maybe I should say
still has some remote chance of success.

I'll be updateing the Fedora Legacy web site just as soon as I get a chance.
Unfortunately lately I've been too busy dealing with issues of my wife's
health (along with my work responsibilities) to help as much as I would like
to.  Strangely, it turned out in the end I could help with the web site
without learning about IRC, wiki, and all that other new-aged stuff...

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Eric Rostetter