On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote:
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@redhat.com wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, inode0 wrote:
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@redhat.com wrote:
And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken". I suggest you look at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics page. We've only seen growth in 2 of our last 6 releases. Think about that.
While I don't see that as directly relating to the mission of the Fedora Project I understand it is important to many people and I understand there is an indirect link with the mission. But what indicates that is a problem with the distribution as opposed to a marketing problem?
This is the fundamental difference between the two of us I think. I'm asking the questions[1] and trying to find the answers. You seem to think we don't need to ask the questions. That's why "does X cause Y" is a good question while "Isn't it great how?" isn't.
If I seem to think we don't need to ask questions why did I just ask one that you are going to answer later?
The question I asked curiously is really of the "does X cause Y" variety. Restated it is does the state of the OS cause the lack of growth you cite? Or another way does the marketing effort cause the lack of growth you cite?
Unless you were misquoted the question you asked was:
"Isn't it amazing how thousands of contributors doing whatever they want created such a spectacular OS?" [1]
As far as your question about the lack of growth, I was under the impression that to you our growth didn't matter[2]. My apologies.
[1] I'm asking these questions because I'm not happy with the state of our operating system. It's almost the entire reason I ran for the board.
Good for you. The rest of us get to ask questions too.
I encourage that. FAB is a good place for it.
-Mike
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/130157.html [2] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-February/130167.html