I agree with Neal! As I mentioned on Discord having a healthy competition between projects is fine, but when it comes to pity taunting that is not the way to attract new users/contributors. Other projects doing this type of unprofessional marketing might work for those projects, however, this also invites potentially toxic people into our community. Toxic messages will be well received by toxic people. Based on the past few weeks happenings on the ML this looks like something that we're trying to avoid? AFAIK openSUSE and RH/Fedora has a pretty good relationship going. What do you think, with these type of messages how long will that last? What is the expected ROI on this kind of responses to a project that is stuck between a rock and a very hard place right now?
Whoever is responsible posting these pity taunting messages I strongly suggest to have a good read of this: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Guiding_principles#We_value... There is nothing respectable in this type of "marketing". As an openSUSE member these were my responses to people coming after and bashing on CentOS: https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1338305668369944576?s=20 https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1337764549873680386?s=20 https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1337373249198379010?s=20 https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1337231838075469825?s=20 https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1336872649859821570?s=20 https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1338305668369944576?s=20 https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1337231838075469825?s=20 I made one comment which was distasteful and after talking with Neal and better understanding what is really happening I deleted it: https://twitter.com/AttilaNuke/status/1340023242447151104?s=20 Br, A. P.S.: Btw I am one of three - with Adrien and Ivo - who jump-started not long ago the docs project to aid new users coming to openSUSE in having an easier start and understanding of the project and tools. _______________________________________________ openSUSE Marketing mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] List Netiquette: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette List Archives: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]
