Kalle Happonen wrote: > Bumbl wrote: > >> As it seems they have the contrary. >> They have a leader which seems to dictate everything without >> accepting ideas from the developers or the community. >> >> >> > Well, that's just mean. It's not like they don't listen to the community > or communicate with it, on ALL levels. But it's not like all community > ideas can be implemented immideately, and that everyone can be made > happy. Anarchy doesn't work even in open source. > > I think 2008.08 is in most ways a step forward. And in the things that > aren't like that.. sometimes you have to take a half step back to get > two steps forward. Constructive criticism is the best help one can give, > but bitching is just stupid. > > Cheers, > Kalle > >> Dimitri wrote: >> >> >>> It's hard to argue with your points, since the phone STILL can't connect to >>> the internet *out-of-the-box*. >>> >>> (Who wants to manually hack a dozen files, or install some guy's >>> half-working gui posted on some blog that requires google-translate to >>> read?) >>> >>> Why the developers are spending time breaking things that were previously >>> worked (see ASU keyboard), rather than fixing what's broken and in desperate >>> need of fixing, is beyond me. >>> >>> Is it a lack of leadership? For this aggressive undertaking to be >>> successful, it needs at least one person to prioritize, delegate, and lead >>> the other developers. >>> >>> Is there such a person at Openmoko? If not, that's the problem. Having a >>> team of developers, without clear leadership, is akin to herding cats :) >>> >>> D >>> >>> >>> ted braak wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I have real doubts about the some Quality Assurance aspects of this team. >>>> Also I don't see real dedication and vision to get rid of bugs and produce >>>> something stable and usable. It looks like there is more effort in >>>> bringing us bling. >>>> I think bling is something that can be created by the community itself. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > The problem is some features the community really longs for are already in the code but all disabled (and they will stay disabled) because the leader/design department decides that the community does not need them. You can't enable them without forking and building your own application. And that is the problem.
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