(2008-11-25) Fedora 领袖的 Fedora 10 致辞

下面是 Paul W. Frields 的第二篇致辞与祝贺。

在 Fedora 10 发布之际，我(pfrields)祝贺社区所有参与者，感谢你们的不懈努力。

在 Fedora 9 发布时，我写了一份相当长的祝贺邮件。我觉着如果把它印出来，它也许会因为自身引力而坍塌成一个奇点——吞噬掉我们的行星。因此，这次我一定要保持简洁，然而在很短的篇幅中写出所有的感激和自豪又怎么可能呢。

首先，感谢 Brian Pepple 和 FESCo，Francesco Ugolini 和 FAMSCo，Dimitris Glezos 和 FLSCo，Karsten Wade 和 FDSCo，以及所有其他指导委员会和小组，在开发和发布过程中，通过开放、公开的会议，保证了过程的透明和完善。这些成员所处的位置，不仅在于更有利于开展工作，更重要的是以合适(但是不过火)的方式，组织社区成员更好地参与。面对良好的计划，他们的执行力是自由软件社区所能达到的最高水准。

特别感谢了不起的 Mike McGrath 和无畏的 野山羊 基础设施(Infrastructure)团队。靠了他们，在八月份遭受入侵时，Fedora 才没有天翻地覆。他们重新构建了整个社区平台，度过了许多不眠之夜，我们才可以仍然保持安全。而且，他们使用的工具也正是我们即将向全世界散播的软件——证明了自由软件才是实现稳定、可扩展和高可用性的最佳选择。如果有这方面的奥林匹克盛会，他们应当得到金牌。

感谢全球的 Ambassador 团队！超过 600 名 Ambassador，每月还在增加。他们将本地的社区引至自由软件，他们以一种草根效应的方式将越来越多的贡献者带入自由软件世界，同时将 Fedora 的四个基本点带给人们——“自由，友好，特性，第一”。

非常感谢 Máirín Duffy, Nicu Buculei, 和美工团队所有成员。他们的成果跨越了每个版本，因为他们不仅仅创作一张美丽的桌面壁纸——不得不说他们每次都创作了如此美丽的桌面壁纸，正如这次的“Solar”主题。他们还创作和美化了社区的每个网站，设计了横幅，贴纸，传单，信纸，贴画…… 你一定会被这些惊人的作品所震撼。

谢谢(Thank you, merci, אַ דאַנק, ευχαριστώ, धन्यवाद, muchas gracias, நன்றி, tak, kia ora, terima kasih, شكرًا, ขอบคุณ, ありがとう)众多的翻译人员！在 Fedora 的平台上，他们与上游良好地合作。由于他们的努力，自由软件可以让世界上更多人受益。有时我会将自己的电脑切换到另一种语言，希望体验世界上另一个角落的用户的感觉，我很讶异本地化做得如此完全。

感谢 Ricky Zhou 领导的网站团队，让我们重新设计的网站如此一致，按时更新。

感谢 Will Woods, James Laska, Jon Stanley, 和所有 QA 团队成员，还有极为重要的 Bug Zapper 参与者，他们解决了最困难的问题：最为难以捉摸的质量和稳定性控制，不管是软件还是过程。他们保证了用户和开发者在使用 Fedora 时的良好体验。在周期开始时，我曾有一个月时间参与错误分拣工作，我希望 Fedora 11 周期中会有更多人参与。

打包人员，怎么会漏了你们？你们将软件源源不断地送入仓库，让无论什么人都能安装到想要的软件。超过一万个(我还在数 RPM )理由可以说明为什么 Fedora 适合任何人，所有人。

感谢文档团队，尤其是一些新人，协助降低了参与文档项目的门槛，建立了种种参与方式，包括 wiki 整理，发行注记，各种最终用户指南等等。这些工作应当持续下去。

感谢 Jesse Keating, Josh Boyer, 和所有发布工程师，在控制进度以及部署发布计划中的努力，从 Alpha 版，到 Beta，到 Preview，最后发布 “Cambridge”，还有其间种种(快照)。我想象不出为什么你们可以完成这么多事情，竟然还有时间读邮件，与家人共度良宵，还能抽空喝一杯——总之，向你们脱帽致敬。

我个人还想感谢几位特殊的成员，他们在后台做的一切准备工作并不比表面看到的更少。不屈不挠的 Fedora 项目经理 John Poelstra，成功地在各次 Fedora 会议中引导讨论，同时保持积极和乐观。巫师一般的 Tom ‘spot’ Callaway，即使睡着也可以用 Perl 变出魔法，对一切神秘的事务都有百科全书一般的研究，在 Red Hat 内部管理着 Fedora 工程师团队。还有 Max Spevack，我的前任，目前是社区架构团队的管理者，一直预备着伸出援手。

最后，当然同样重要的，是您，尊敬的读者。您是社区的一分子，没有您，我们做什么都没有意义。自由软件并非只是比特和字节，而是关于人，关于实现一些有形的，确实的东西，为了您和所有人。在您的帮助下，Fedora Project 引领了自由软件的创新，至今已经有五年和十个版本了。所有人，请祝贺自己，您做得很好！

OK，我没法将这些压缩得更短，也许还漏掉了重要的人。如果遗漏了您，请接受我诚挚的歉意：没有您的不断努力，Fedora 不可能是现在的模样。我从心底感谢社区的所有成员，和我们的所有用户。

来吧，我们继续关注 Fedora 10，还有将来！

–
Paul W. Frields

原文见 Fedora 10 around the corner!

As we all get ready for tomorrow’s release, I wanted to congratulate
everyone in the community on Fedora 10, and say a few words of thanks
as well.

For Fedora 9, I wrote an enormous congratulatory email tome. I’m
pretty sure that if printed and left somewhere without anyone keeping
an eye on it, it would actually collapse into a singularity and devour
the entire planet. So I’ll try to keep it more brief this time, even
though it’s tough for me to pack all my gratitude and pride in this
community into a tiny space.

First, I’d like to thank Brian Pepple and FESCo, Francesco Ugolini and
the FAMSCo, Dimitris Glezos and the FLSCo, Karsten Wade and the FDSCo,
and all the other steering committees and groups that kept up a steady
presence of open, public meetings throughout the release to ensure
that work was progressing well and transparently. These folks step up
not just to do productive work on their own, but to make sure that
other community members can do the same, with just as much
organization as is required, but no more than is needed. You folks
represent the best of what free software communities can achieve in
executing the best-laid plans.

A big thank-you to “Marvelous” Mike McGrath and our intrepid
Infrastructure team, without whom Fedora would have been in a shambles
following the intrusion this past August. These folks rebuilt our
entire community platform, spending many sleepless nights so our
nights would be restful and secure. And they did it all with the same
software we make available for everyone worldwide — proving beyond a
shadow of a doubt that free software is truly the best way to achieve
stability, scalability, and availability. There are not enough gold
medals in the Olympics for you guys, as far as I’m concerned.

A huge shout goes out to our Ambassador teams worldwide — over 600
Ambassadors already, and more every month. Just as they have been for
years, they’re out there bringing local communities together around
free software. Every day they are cultivating a grassroots effort
that brings an increasing number of contributors into the world of
free software, and at the same time brings the four foundations of
Fedora to the people — “Freedom, Friends, Features, First.”

Speaking of which, another big burst of gratitude goes to Máirín
Duffy, Nicu Buculei, and the rest of our awesome Artwork team. Their
work spans the length of every release, because it’s not just a
desktop background theme — even though they produce another
miraculously beautiful one of those every time, like Fedora 10′s
“Solar” theme. They also produce designs for every part of our
community, like software project sites, banners, stickers, fliers,
press contact letters, and posters. If you haven’t seen them already,
you’re going to love the new Four Foundations media; it’s spectacular.

Thank you(*) also to the hundreds of translators work on the projects
where Fedora provides the upstream. Because of them, free software
will be even more useful in the hands of millions more people around
the world. I sometimes switch my computer to a different locale just
so I can see Fedora, in a sense, through someone else’s eyes, and I’m
always surprised and gratified to see how thorough that experience is.

Kudos to our Websites team, now led by wunderkind Ricky Zhou, and
their dedicated work to make sure that our redesigns and content make
it out in one piece, on time and smoothly.

Thanks to Will Woods, James Laska, Jon Stanley, and the rest of our QA
team and the vital Bug Zappers for taking on some of the hardest
problems out there: The elusive search for quality and robustness in
our releases and our processes, and ensuring that our users and
developers have a positive experience using the Fedora distribution.
I spent a month or so helping triage bugs earlier this cycle, and I
hope everyone will pitch in a bit for Fedora 11 to do the same.

Packagers, where would be without you? You help keep the software
available for everyone 24/7, always making sure that whether someone’s
a wee-hours developer or a day-job professional, he or she gets the
software needed to do the work. Thank you for providing over 10,000
reasons (and counting) why Fedora is for anyone and everyone.

Thanks to our Documentation team, particularly some of our new folks,
for spinning up brand-new, easy ways for people to get involved in
projects like wiki gardening, the release notes, and our various
end-user guides. I am very much looking forward to your good work
continuing into the next release.

Thank you to Jesse Keating, Josh Boyer, and our whole Release
Engineering team for keeping a close eye on our schedule and actually
getting our releases out the door, from Alpha to Beta to Preview to
“Cambridge” itself, and everything in between. I still don’t know how
you guys get all this done and still have time for email, family, and
the occasional frosty beverage, but my hat’s off to you guys.

I want to personally thank three very special individuals who work
incredibly hard behind the scenes at least as hard as they do in front
of them — the indomitable Fedora Program Manager John Poelstra, who
has not only shepherded innumerable Fedora meetings successfully, but
who maintains a great attitude and is such a joy to work with on a
personal level; the amazing Tom ‘spot’ Callaway, who not only juggles
Perl in his sleep and maintains an encyclopedic knowledge of all
things Anuran, but also manages Fedora Engineering inside Red Hat with
a sure and steady hand; and Max Spevack, my predecessor and now
manager of the Community Architecture team, who’s always ready to lend
an effort wherever it’s required that day.

Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank you, the reader, if I
haven’t already. You’re part of our community too, and without you we
would be diminished. Free software isn’t just about bits and bytes,
it’s about people, about doing something real, something tangible,
something lasting for your fellow human beings. And with your help,
the Fedora Project has been able to lead in free software innovation
for over five years and ten releases now. Each and every one of you
– pat yourself on the back for a job well done.

OK, I failed miserably at making it short, and I am certain that I
left someone out in my desire to thank everyone. If it was you, Dear
Reader, please accept my humble apologies and know that Fedora would
not be where it is today without your hard work and perseverance.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart on behalf of your fellow
community members and the millions of users whom you’ve helped.

Now, let’s all look forward to Fedora 10, and beyond!

= = =
(*) 謝謝, merci, אַ דאַנק, ευχαριστώ, धन्यवाद, muchas gracias, நன்றி, tak,
kia ora, terima kasih, شكرًا, ขอบคุณ, ありがとう!

–
Paul W. Frields