Hi Nate,
> With any decision made, we make people upset. People complain because we
> didn't ask their opinion. We made a change to the list by adding a [RHL]
> to the list so the inexperienced users can filter on it. Many people were
> upset by this change. To prevent a flame war we removed the [RHL] which
> caused other people to get upset. You only saw the letters posted to the
> list where were very few in comparison.
>
> Yes this is a free service that Red Hat provides the community so we can
> dictate how it should be set up. If we felt this way and followed this,
> we could easily become the next Microsoft, where our way is right and
> everyone else must conform to our standard. We don't want that. We want
> to help the community. We like to receive input from the community to
> find out what we are doing wrong. Sure the list and 5 characters in a
> subject line seem trivial, but a lot of people have very strong feelings
> about it.
>
> I hope you can understand why we are doing this, and I thank you for your
> input.
I do not doubt your good intentions, let that be clear! I do not think that
RedHat is trying to become the next Microsoft.
What I say is that this kind of poll gives a sense of democracy or fairness
that it can not provide. I don't think basing your decisions on a poll like
this is a good thing to do (because you miss a certain framework bla bla bla).
I just think it makes more sense to consider the input and make an intelligent
decision based on that (just because there is no better way). You will
disappoint some people anyway, and you better do it based on your good
judgement than on a meaningless poll.
CU O,
Leonard.
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