Le Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:04:34 -0800 (PST), Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hi again Charles > > > Charles-H.Schulz wrote > > > > What this thread says -and I took the time not to just look at > > the thread but at the other areas of the project as well- is that > > developers listen to user feedback. And that's probably a good > > thing to do although some people might disagree (cf. Henry Ford); > > yet listening to user feedback hardly makes up a democracy. It's > > user feedback. In some cases it might be a case of "nice customer > > service". But it does not help that much. I'll explain myself. > > > > Let's see. The developer is asking the community who is using a given > feature (which he states would prefer to drop). Yet he subjects this > to an open poll (not even limited to the registered forum users) and > he is willing to accept the opinion of the majority. If that is not a > democracy, it's damn close! > > How is that even similar to meritocracy? Meritocracy would be: I'm the > developer, I don't have time for this so I'm dropping it. If some one > else wants to keep developing it, just do it. > > I'm not arguing that all those projects that you pointed do not > follow the same logic (I'm not saying this is a TDF / LO exclusive). > I'm just showing you that other FOSS projects can be (and some are!) > democratic. hmm, then I don't agree with your qualification of democratic. You have similar polls in supermarkets. But supermarkets are no democracies. A democracy means a democratic structure, not a consumer/plebeian feedback process, no matter how effective it is. best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Member of the Board of Directors, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
