On 05/12/2010 04:46 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I was disappointed when I read through the Go / No Go meeting log tonight > when I read that we would have to slip. Then I remembered the evidence of > hard work I observed over the last couple of weeks and thought, that people > are going to notice the slip and grumble about that and forget about the > hard work a number of people put in trying to get a release we could be > proud of out on the 18th. > > So I acknowledged some of that on the devel list. > > Then I thought about it some more and contrasted it to some of the mailing > list issues with people making mostly negative comments when something goes > wrong or when people had disagreements. And what I thought is that we don't > do enough calling each other out for going above and beyond (either as > a volunteer or a even a Redhat employee). > > I think partly is that we expect people to do a good job on Fedora and even > most of the people who participate are self motiviated or they wouldn't > be here. Still, I think being publically acknowledged by your peers for > doing something good is something that almost everyone appreciates. > > I wasn't sure where to post this, as a lot of the people who should see this > probably don't read the users list. But I didn't want to put this on just > the devel list or the test lists, because I really think it is something > that should be done more by all teams. So I went with users and hope that > things will perculate back to various teams. > > I think Paul is pretty good about doing this, but I think relying on the FPL > to do it all requires that he know about it and puts an extra burden on him. > I think this is something we all should be doing. > > So when you see someone put in extra effort that affects you positively, > please consider thanking the person publically. > > Some recent examples I have noticed: > > Mike McGrath promptly dealt with an outage on a weekend a week or so ago. > I assume that Mike has a life and had to stop something he was doing that > was either fun or needed to be done in order to deal with getting koji/bodhi > working again. > > Jesse Keating worked hard building RC images and spins this last week in > the run up to today's go / no go meeting. He ended up dealing with at least > a few things he really shouldn't have had to, but took care of them. > > The testing / QA teams. It looked to me like the testing and QA folks > were working hard to figure out the causes of blocker bugs, get them fixed > and then tested. I don't know their names, but maybe Adam would like to > single some of them out for recognition? IMHO a delayed release is better than a flawed one. So I heartily agree that Fedora users should be grateful to all those whose hard work makes each new release possible. As a KDE user I'd also like to express my appreciation of all the people whose hard work maintains my faith in KDE, even with the problems of the initial KDE 4 release. Finally, I must express my appreciation of all the people who maintain and develop Linux and associated applications, the basis of the Fedora Linux releases. I moved to using Fedora Linux at home about 7 years ago, and I can testify that it has improved in that time. From initial installation to installing/updating applications, and ease of use, it's a story of many improvements, and at least one happy user. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
