Red Hat tries again

Nice Article: Red Hat tries again with Linux enthusiasts | CNET News.com:

"'One of the mistakes we made early on when we made the split between RHEL and Fedora was we told everybody that Fedora was public, come help us out,' said Greg Dekoenigsberg, Red Hat's community relations manager. 'We got lots of people responding,' but Red Hat couldn't accept much beyond simple bug reports.

'There just wasn't much they were able to do,' he said. '(This time) we want to make sure we have systems and processes to make sure these people can contribute.'"

Well, at least they know why the FC program really started to suck: the "yes, please help us but you don't have input" problem is something close to what they're solving. Maybe they'll get another chance to examine it when they realize that their solution only partially fits the problem.

Good start, good direction, and good luck.