On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 08:44 -0700, Jerry James wrote: > I know a number of companies have experimented with "ownership-free" > models of code development, but they are able to offer incentives > that > Fedora cannot offer, such as money and kudos offered in front of > coworkers. What motivates volunteer packagers to do what they do? > I'd like to hear from a few packagers on this topic.
I can't speak to the rest of the issues you've experienced as I haven't so far. I became a packager because software I was using on some of our systems weren't in Fedora/EPEL. I was using them and building them and figured, a) I've always wanted to contribute to FOSS but haven't really been able to yet. b) These are packages that I already have to deal with, might as well have them in the distro to make life easier and provide them for others. Since that first package I'm the point of contact for a mere 12 packages and co-maintainer of 3. Each of those because I was using something and needed newer versions or what have you. Looking at the list, there are a number of dependencies on a package I'm the maintainer of but no longer actively use, however it doesn't change much so why not keep at it. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
