keeping spare-time-contributors happy

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 03.09.2007 16:40, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> IOW: if the professional part and their people that were responsible for
>>> putting the boring paperwork in place should have an open ear and react
>>> quickly to comments like "you made the workflow harder" or "I'm not as
>>> effective as before" to keep the spare-time-contributors happy, as they
>>> are doing some good work as well -- thus the professional part should
>>> not risk to loose or burn them.
>> This distinction is false. Luke worked on Bodhi voluntarily too. Very 
>> few people are working on Fedora full time.
> 
> I beg to differ -- Luke is not *responsible* for putting that boring
> paperwork put in place, so it's IMHO not his fault. Those that wanted
> bodhi are either paid for working on Fedora or members of FESCo afaics

If you are referring to Bodhi are "boring paperwork", it was put up 
there to manage the repository after the merge. The merge brings in 
additional policies in place include freezes, actually having a 
announcement associated with an update which explains why you are 
pushing that update to the end user, pushing updates to updates-testing, 
closing relevant bugs etc. These might all be boring but necessary 
changes. AFAIK, this was done because the people involved believed that 
the advantages of a merge outweighs the short term disadvantages of 
having newer tools in place which might require improvements. If you 
have got any alternative solutions now that we are where we are, list 
them. That is better than figuring out where to assign blame.

FESCo is a elected body. Right? If FESCo takes a decision, everybody 
assumes responsibility for those actions have elected them in the first 
place.

Rahul