On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:10:52AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
So David has stopped being a Fedora volunteer and decided to become an Ubuntu user instead:
http://davidnielsen.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/drawing-my-own-conclusion/
I seem to be in a minority, but I think this is a great shame. We should treat volunteers much better. FESCo shouldn't shoot down proposals without telling the owners of those proposals (no matter how stupid they think the proposal is, it's courteous to arrange a time when that person can be present and state their case).
I may be over-generalizing my own case, but I don't think that the issue is a 'micro'-management issue. In case of long time fedora contributors interested in a specific area, I'd conjecture that there is a more in-depth disagreement about the place of the object of interest (here Mono) in Fedora. The will to leave may be partly based on a specific badly managed event, but it is likely to be a broader perspective integrating many interactions in the Fedora community that leads to the conclusion that it is not in Fedora that the energy is best spent integrating a given component, here Mono.
-- Pat