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  • From: Alex Smith <alex AT alexsmith.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] PR Team Proposal
  • Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:46:52 +0100

Hi Jeremy,


Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:

On Apr 27, Alex Smith [alex AT alexsmith.org] wrote:

I've found, after repeated attempts at learning to program, it'll never be
my forte. I've instead decided, to try and devote myself in some way to
promoting (and of course evangelising) Sourcemage GNU/Linux.


Several places in your proposal you make mention of 'getting more
developers' and 'getting more users'. However, you never indicate *why*
you think we would want more developers or users, it's just a given this is
what we'd want. Can you say a bit about why you think these are
necessarily good things?
There are several unmaintained sections of SMGL, I'd like to help out filling in some of the gaps in the teams. I'd also like to be able to take some of the load from the current developers, as our current team getting burned out would be counterproductive for all of us.

And how important are they? Where should they
sit in priorities? If getting new users conflicts with other things the
distro wants, what should happen?

As Sergey so eloquently put it, I too do not believe that we are near the 'tipping point' of having too many users, I do however understand your point. I hope to amass more users toward the release of 1.0, however with more users, must come more developers and vice versa. I do not believe we are in danger of conflicting with what the distribution wants, however if you do have specific concerns, please do bring them up and I hope to be able to answer that, too.


Note: I'm not arguing they *aren't* good things. But many distros chase
after them with just the assumption that's what it's all about, when that
isn't necessarily the case. Many distros also never consider at the start
that there are problems and issues introduced by looking for more users or
developers, and these need to be dealt with in a manner appropriate with
the greater goals of the distribution.

If we're going to have an official PR team I'd just like to know where the
potential team lead would stand on these issues. Thanks.

Thanks for your feedback.


--
Alex Smith <alex AT alexsmith.org>

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have
one."





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