On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
With Free software, the line between developers, testers, users and marketing folks often blurs. In Fedora, the "marketing team" is just a bunch of loosely organized volunteers including developers. That might be a bit troublesome to deal with it but we need to consider the feature process, blogging etc as part of our work too instead of deviation from "real work".
Wait a minute.
Feature planning is, of course, part of the "real work" of engineering, and no engineer I know would claim otherwise. I certainly didn't see caillon say anything like "feature planning is a waste of my time."
Blogging can certainly be useful in gathering momentum around an idea, yes. But that doesn't mean it should be compulsory.
--g