In practice on open source projects, things happen because some person or company volunteers to implement them and sees the project through to the end. So I don't really see steering committee schedule-making as a process that's going to work. The Google GWT team is going to set its own quarterly goals and everyone else is going to make their own decisions about what to work on too.
And even if it could work, it's not a good idea. As a more recent example, I don't think we should still do Mavenization just because that's what we originally decided and there were slides at Google I/O to that effect. That's not a winning argument. We should fix the build process in the way that makes the most sense now. We're not doing GWT users any favors by making flat-out promises we won't necessarily keep. It's fair to say that there some things we have to do and supporting major browsers is certainly one of them. But if it's at all doubtful we should leave things open and it's a good idea to hedge. A good phrase to use is "we don't have a crystal ball, but [...]". - Brian On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > But we now have a steering committee, and decisions are made in public so > anyone can bug you when you forget. That's a different situation than > before. > Le 8 oct. 2013 22:43, "Brian Slesinsky" <skybr...@google.com> a écrit : > >> >> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Jens <jens.nehlme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> [...] since in practice we won't consider ourselves bound to them. >>>> >>> >>> Why not? >>> >> >> Because we'll either we'll forget about that page due to turnover or >> something new will happen and priorities will change. Put it this way: how >> much do you feel bound by decisions made a few years ago by people who no >> longer work on GWT? >> >> - Brian >> >> -- >> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit-contributors/GO4iP9RkxQY/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Contributors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
