On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 01:39:28 -0500, Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, *OF COURSE* the 3 guys who want to add multi-protocol support > to the AOLserver core are a minority of AOLserver users! *YOU* are a > minority of AOLserver users too, Dossy.
Right. There's a huge difference between "majority rules" and stewardship. Today's installed base may not care one whit about multiprotocol support, OCaml integration or better documentation in Japanese. Today's users aren't the target audience, so trying to identify demographics in the current userbase is a strawman. Placating the majority here is a path towards stagnation and death, not innovation and growth. For the sake of argument, ~95% of AOLServers users don't and won't modify the codebase (including docs). And those same users don't use more than ~50% of the features in AOLServer. The issue isn't whether or not to enlarge the scope of the project to include a feature, like multiprotocol support. The issue *should* be whether to include that feature based on its merits. If ~95% of users next year do not use multiprotocol support, who cares? If we were talking about, say, turning AOLServer into an X-Window manager, mail reader and web browser, then the proposed changes would be questionable, because they are not in scope with the mission/goals of the project. -- Adam -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
