On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@redhat.com wrote:
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]
That was a rhetorical answer to the question, "Does letting thousands of contributors do what they want have a negative impact on our OS?" It translates more succinctly as "no." And was followed by a suggestion that asking questions about what in the unorchestrated stew that is the Fedora Project caused that result was something worth investigating.
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.
I don't consider growth for the sake of growth important or part of the Fedora Project's mission. Targeted and sustainable growth where that growth furthers the Fedora Project's mission is what I care about and I don't think that is reflected in download statistics.
But my question about growth was sincere. Identifying lack of growth as a problem to me suggests on the surface a marketing issue, not an OS issue so I wanted to know why we were addressing it as an OS problem. There could be reasons it is, I'm not denying that possibility.
John