Re: Fedora Legacy shutting down

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On Saturday 30 December 2006 03:33, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> I'm wondering if anybody is working on a communications piece for the =A0
> shutdown. =A0A who-what-when-where-why-how sort of article? =A0I'm =A0
> assuming it would be on the Wiki/homepage if it were, but here's =A0
> asking anyhow.

Reading this list over the last year or so would be good info.

> So, assuming it hasn't been, I can volunteer to put something =A0
> together, to save the multitudes the effort of investigation. =A0I =A0
> spent some time looking over the last couple months of mailing list =A0
> archives, the internetnews piece, and Jesse's blog, but I'm not =A0
> convinced I have the whole story. =A0Some outstanding questions would be:
>
> =A0 =A0* was there any attempt to recruit new leadership?

Yes, leadership does no good without contributors.

> =A0 =A0* ditto for sponsorship

Nobody has responded to our calls for help.  Nobody.

> =A0 =A0* is there data on usage (I saw that 'interest was low' but I'm =A0
> not sure if it means interest in volunteering or interest in terms of =A0
> yum updates)

Sure, there are a good number of consumers, people who will happily consume=
=20
until the project ends, however they are not willing to actually DO any of=
=20
the work necessary to keep the project alive.  They would be better suited=
=20
consuming updates from a product that is designed for their usage cases.

> =A0 =A0* probably lots more I'm not thinking about now, and it's late so =
=A0
> my reading comprehension is likely sub-par

=2D-=20
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

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