haiku + suggestion

["Drew M. Meeks" <drew@redhat.com>]

You asked for a haiku, you got it.
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Sources and DevNet
To make tools and to use tools
two sides of one coin
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Ok so the haiku stinks, but the idea I think is a good one. We need to
make sourceware/sources closer connected to redhat.com and vice versa. I
began this conversation with Jim Kingdon before he left and I think the
time is right to resume it.

I believe that sources.redhat.com and the Developer Network serve
different audiences and have different objectives but that they should
ultimately be deeply connected, much as two sides of the same coin.

The Developer Network's objective is to attract Programmers/Developers
to Red Hat's development platforms: for example, corporate and
commercial developers currently using NT. It's intended audience is the
users/potential users of our OS, compilers, debuggers, etc. not the
actual developers of those tools.

Sources.redhat.com, on the other hand, is clearly targeted at the people
who develop the tools themselves: the GNU/open source development
community. It is a resource to foster the ongoing development of these
tools, more than to encourage their adoption.

Since the audiences and objectives are different, I think it makes sense
to maintain the DevNet as the developer/programmer customer facing area
on the site and Sources as the tool/OS Developer facing area and to
provide meaningful links between the two. This they become like two
sides to one coin. 

The other aspect of this idea is to unify the hw/sw infrastructure. Paul
Lindner is heading up the development of a robust and dynamic
infrastructure for redhat.com. There are many excellent features that
already exist or are under development that Sources could benefit from.
Unifying the infrastructure would also more easily enable other
development groups within Red Hat to publish and maintain their public
Engineering project sites as part of Sources.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter and to help us arrive
at the right answer.

thanks for your time,

Drew

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