Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Not really.  My IQ is at least a few points above 3 (I think) and
> AFAICT, the main cause of this is simply a lack of available manpower
> to find and fix all of the bugs.  There are not quite 400 people that
> maintain at least one of the 4300+ packages in Fedora.  A lot of folks
> maintain several.  And that's for at least 3 versions at a time --
> more if you count the folks @redhat.com that maintain stuff for RHEL
> as well.
> 
> To paraphrase Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which
> can be adequately explained by lack of volunteers. :)

Yep. If half of the people who are willing to discuss the nature of 
Fedora in length step further to actually contribute that would make a 
pretty big difference but alas folks are more interested in calling it 
unstable or wanting the distribution to including proprietary software 
by default.

Next time you want to complain ask yourself how much you have 
contributed in anyway at all to a every growing collection of Free 
software included in a distribution that you can get for free. That 
includes a lot of work many of which is volunteer driven in maintaining 
around 8000 packages, documentation, artwork, QA, release engineering, 
infrastructure, marketing etc.

You can choose to help.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join

Rahul