Ciaran,
On 06/19/10 21:16, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > No, that's the nice thing about delivering a product based upon > technical merit: most of the time, there are right answers and there > are wrong answers, and careful investigation and good management can > lead to it being determined which is which. I think you neglect differences in values. Say the degree of backwards-compatibility: there's no wrong nor right without values. Both sides have pros and cons. > Collaboration works when good ideas get kept and bad ideas get dropped. > Collaboration fails when good ideas are rejected because people don't > like who came up with them If you had better tone it would be much easier to accept the good among your ideas. > or the tone in which they were presented, or > when bad ideas are kept around to avoid hurting the feelings of the > people who came up with those ideas. Saying "no" politely is hard, not impossible. >>> Personally, I'd like to see Gentoo start having the kinds of people >>> who deliver a better product, not the kinds of people who worry >>> that using a gender-ambiguous cow as a logo might be offensive. >> >> I don't consider that comment respectful. > > But do you consider it to be correct? No, I don't. I have said "technical is not our main problem" many times. Best, Sebastian
