On 2/03/2009, at 2:35 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote: > I simply think that questions like IPS vs. conary or Gnome vs. KDE > should be solved via a referendum. > For what else do we actually have a constitution, otherwise? > (In case of conary facts have been created by SMI, so by now it is of > course much too late for such a poll.)
You can't have a set of technical decisions made by a referendum. Lots of people without a strong vested interest in the code would essentially be arbitrarily voting on what the 'perceived' best solution is, without any strong personal research on it. There's very few open source communities out there that would do such a thing. Quite often, developers gather around something that they find most interesting, and momentum gathers from there. It just so happened that more developers found disadvantages of conary versus writing IPS from scratch. If developers with runs on the board in terms of contribution, trust and experience had gathered around conary, then things might have been different. Sorry, but that's the way open source generally works - entirely meritocratic. Glynn
