<quote who="BJörn Lindqvist"> > Which is why a transparent process is really really important.
I agree, though I've had concerns figuring out the things you raised next: > Oh, and I don't believe the argument that "feelings might get hurt if > someone is publicly rejected." If someones ego is so fragile that it > breaks by being rejected from syndication, one must ask why you're > publishing a blog for the world to see in the first place? > planet.gnome.org is an important source of gnome related news and > understandably, not everyone can belong. > > Not that I think very many would be rejected in an open system. It's not > like people would apply unless they actually are interested in and writing > about GNOME and free software. I hope this is true, but I haven't been very confident about it. I've felt uncomfortable from both sides though -- worried that public rejection will offend, and that maybe I would be less editorially strict to avoid public offense. This part I really haven't figured out to my satisfaction yet. That said, I am happy so far that no one has been privately offended when receiving a "sorry, no" or "not just yet" response. At least about feeds. I've had a couple go slightly mental because I wouldn't put non-pgo style hackergotchis up. :-) (Despite all the noise, I'm mostly concentrating on making the guidelines more clear and addressing the maintenance issues.) - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "Having strings in a language seems to be a case of premature optimization." - Paul Graham _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list