On Saturday, March 05, 2016 11:18:47 Stephen Kelly wrote: > Jos Poortvliet wrote: ... > > Just think about neon - make a list of 5 reasons why it shouldn't be a KDE > > project, easy. But then look at the vision: does it help people (a certain > > group, in this case, Ubuntu users) achieve and more control over their > > privacy, their desktop etc? It does, so, while we can and should have more > > criteria than 'just' a vision, it IS something which binds us. > > This part of your email seems really out of scope to me. > > A vision is not a tool. It is especially not a tool for deciding things > like whether something fits in KDE. Look to a mission for that. The vision > should be 'useless' and 'not helpful to decide anything at all'. > > It should not 'define what KDE is' or be helpful for defining that, or > anything along those lines. > > The only reason to have a vision is to be inspired by it. Trying to use it > for other things is a mistake IMO.
Is there general consensus on that ? There wasn't very much response to this. (I'm not saying I disagree, just asking) I wouldn't mind keeping this as the preliminary vision and starting to work on the mission. Alex _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community