With the current stream of generally unappreciative sentiments and self-centered bitching(1) and moaning going on, and taken the fact LQ seems to be the "main FC forum", I was wondering if there are ppl here who have a good grasp (2) of what FC is about, who are part of fedora-devel or on it's dev mailinglist, do Q&A for Fedora and/or maybe even know about FC-Legacy? Just wondering what ppl we got here. Or is FC more a mailinglist slash IRC thing right now?


//(1) If you want to bitch and moan, go where the slackwhorez are. Freak! Slackwhore! Freak!
//(2) Uh, maybe call it "nearly authoritative", as far as that goes w/o you having a @redhat.com address.

Not sure whether I understand you or your questions.

The Fedora Project is not as ready yet as would be necessary to make community commitment possible in many areas where that is planned. You might want to read the updated roadmap at: http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/

It would be very unlikely to meet any QA people who are not Red Hat employees, because the Fedora Core development and QA process has not been opened to such a level, and official Fedora Extras and Fedora Alternatives do not exist yet either.

In the field of Fedora Extras package development and QA, community contributions are possible at http://fedora.us which is the community project that will be merging into the Fedora Project and at http://rpm.livna.org which hosts packages with legal concerns, such as patenting and licensing issues (mp3, video players e.g.).

Apart from that, the usual ways of trying to contribute apply. E.g. testing prerelease updates or even Raw Hide, submitting bug reports and patches ( http://bugzilla.redhat.com http://bugzilla.fedora.us http://bugzilla.livna.org ), helping on mailing-lists. Not everything is documented, but it's always recommended to seek contact on the official mailing-lists if there's any area where you'd like to help.

Fedora Legacy shouldn't be any secret, because it is mentioned at http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html and if you search the place where community commitment is possible right now, you can find http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy

Thanks for the clear reply Misc.

I think I've got some grasp on what FC is trying to accomplish, and to try and see if I could fit in I've read the FCL Wiki back to front, almost all of the Gnome triage docs and examples, part of the fc-devel and installed FC1 of course. Guess I'll just have to be on fc-devel.