On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:41:59AM -0800, Baybal Ni wrote: > Guys, for a sake of a sanity. I've been around gnome since pre 2.0 > times. And all times up to now we supposed that OSS is about > democratic process, where programmers are not told buy big enterprise
General attitude is that it is a meritocracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy Or: People who do stuff decide (merits). > daddy what to write. Now, you former windows/sco/ibm/sun programmers > are coming and saying that is wasn't. Yes, there are some big You can do what you want. However, it is still not a democracy. Might not be accepted by a maintainer. > developers who can steer the way of a project, but nobody up to now > just came I said what you have just said! Search for e.g. "meritocracy site:gnome.org". > You can't complete your shell if you drop off all the remaining > developers of the boat. Shell is already a buggy hell, that will take > many months just to stabilize. Now, probably you realize that simply > dumping your privately developed project on a community in hope that > it will accept and maintain it doesn't work. If you read up on meritocracy you'll notice that it is decided by the people who are making it and are maintaining it. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list