I don't think entropy is the proper term. The physicists version that I learned was in the following form:
1. You can't win. 2. You can't even break even. 3. And you can't get out of the game. I think an appropriate concern, here, has to do with technical debt. The longer the technical debt goes unpaid, the more interest must be paid by someone (often the users). The term was introduced by Ward Christensen (inventor of the Wiki, among other things). Martin Fowler has a nice perspective that discriminates the different ways that technical debt arises (including, "if it was known then what is known now ... ." See <http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html> and <http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html>. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Donald Whytock [mailto:dwhyt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 08:16 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Strategic Planning: Website On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > I'd love to hear your thoughts, and see your improvements or corrections. "Entropy. The longer we go without solving some of the above problems the worse things will get." I'd like to see a slightly-less-apocalyptic wording for this, in light of the public exposure and scrutiny AOO seems to receive. Perhaps: "Entropy. Letting problems persist is easy, and gets easier the longer it's allowed to happen. We need to be proactive in not only recognizing the problems, but also working to solve them." Don
