On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:11:54PM -0500, David Grove wrote:
> Perhaps, then, there should be one more officer, chosen by Larry himself.
> This person would be responsible for collecting public opinions and
> representing them to the developer group, who needs to follow that guidance
> as long as they're technically capable.
Well, we have two. One for the users, and one for the corporates.
> This person should also determine the timing of releases, or agree to the
> timing based on public opinion. No more of this releasing versions before
> they're ready or withholding modules.
This is screamingly insane. The people who do the development are the people
who are best placed to know when it's time to ship.
Consider:
"Public Opinion": Hey, we need Perl 6 stable in three weeks.
Coders: But, uhm, we haven't started coding yet.
No, no, no, no. He who leads the development *must* lead the release schedule.
This is open source, David. You might have heard of it.
> Don't think that our current "information officer" is capable of accurately
> or faithfully filling this role, you'd be off by several hundred miles.
You kind of have to justify statements like that, I'm afraid.
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