On 02/11/2007, Roy T. Fielding <fielding at gbiv.com> wrote: > On Nov 2, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > On 02/11/2007, Roy T. Fielding <fielding at gbiv.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: > >>> Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >>>> 1) Inform all three of Indiana's sponsoring communities about the > >>>> release > >>>> plans requirement of the constitution. > >>> > >>> Awesome, yet another way of slowing down getting software to our > >>> users. Anything > >>> else we can do to get in the way? > >> > >> If you had initiated the project within a community that was scoped > >> for building a distribution, then that decision would have been made > >> already and by the very same people who did the work to produce the > >> software. > >> > >> I told you this at the time the project was proposed, and you ignored > >> it to satisfy the immediate desire of the internal marketing team > >> at Sun. Don't blame anyone else for these problems -- they are > >> entirely manufactured by your refusal to accept community input from > >> day one, and they will continue until the organization reflects the > >> reality of how you intend to govern this project (one way or > >> another). > > > > Sorry, but that's wrong. There is currently nothing in the > > constitution that stipulates that projects must live under a certain > > community. Your claim otherwise is surprising given you drafted the > > constitution. > > Please, get a grip. The constitution has requirements on documented > scope, that all activity be within that scope, and that all projects > be managed by a community with said scope. If there was a distro > community in place, as suggested before, then it would already > have discussed these issues and voted on them long before now. > That is how open development works.
My point was there is nothing in the constitution that says it has to live under a distribution community; obviously it has to live under *a* community. Which is why I said "under *a certain* community." Your implication was that it had to live under a distribution community. As far as scope of that activity; that is open to interpretation. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
