On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, seth vidal wrote:
>> why do you think fedora-maintainers is closed to posts from
>> non-maintainers?
it was decided by a group of red hat and non red hat fedora contributors
at the pre-fudcon meetings.
Mostly to keep the signal/noise ratio down.
Yeah, backroom deals keep the riff-raff out and the surprise
in a relationship, all right. And the trains all run on time.
It is just has little to do a democratic process.
George Orwell had this one called: The only Community in
Fedora is for those pigs who are more equal than others. It
is rank hypocrisy to proclaim oneself a community, when power
and privilege of insider status are reserved to a small elite.
-- Russ Herrold