I feel this model assumes that maintainership is the only meritorious
activity in fedora. I think that other meritorious activities such as
useful analysis of plans and the occasional proposal of alternative
solutions also is meritorious. Im not talking about backseat coding here
but rather offering an alternative perspective to create a well-rounded
view of the goal and the bumps in the path to get there as well as some
suggestions to traverse the trail efficiently. If it is the position of
redhat that this isnt the case i understand but i think it is a mistake
to limit input to that one group.
No, in fact, quite the contrary. We already raised this issue people can
recommend/sponsor other non-packagers for inclusion on that list. I
fully realize there are lots of non-packging meritous contributions to
fedora.
My best suggestion is to open the "new dev list" (aka maintainers) to
people that serve other valuable roles or who routinely inject
intelligent ideas into conversation on fedora-devel. Essentially i like
the idea of a moderated list because i grow weary of a thread with 512
msgs (slimfast slimfest) because it takes half my morning to weed
through it and very few users read it and end up asking the same
questions elsewhere in the list.
And I read every post on the thread. Sad huh? :) But if you want to help
in that way then read through every message and work with Colin Charles
on reviving the Fedora News Updates. And guess what- that also means
you're contributing usefully.
I really don't think it is inappropriate to try to get folks to
contribute in order to be able to be more involved in the decision
making process.
-sv