On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:40 AM, R P Herrold<herrold at centos.org> wrote: > >> Some people are perhaps offended that the less public CentOS >> infrastructure levels do not invite them in -- I cannot help >> their wounded feelings. ... > During my 'relatively short' history with CentOS, I have seen a number > of talented people giving up on helping in the CentOS community. This > is sad and I was hoping the "core" CentOS admins would make an effort > to prevent this kind of loss from happening. umm -- see below > I still believe they do and the above statement is strictly > your personal view (as you rightly said). all true -- and in point of fact, you represent a perfect example of a person invited further in, just days ago, with your recent promotion in bug wrangling rights in the bug tracker As I said elsewhere in the piece, we've had other issues that have had to take precedence, and are in process on reorganization matters -- Russ herrold