Hi Norbert, 2017-04-16 13:28 GMT-03:00 Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name>:
> I wonder why voting is considered something good. To me voting is rather a > last resort strategy. > Voting is taking power without the need for having an opinion nor any > reason. To me the sense of voting is to make most people feel > empowered/comfortable. And the outcome is often poor or even contradictory. > > On the contrary, voting is a good measure of the wisdom and education of the community. Voting is a way to get people who seek absolute power and tyrants out of the road. Because a man without a vote is a man without protection. Because voting and prevents the cult of ignorance promoted by the Open-Source lemma of the "benevolent dictatorship". That post-modern notion of benevolent dictatorship will solve things is terrible. Hernán my 2 cents, > > Norbert > > > Am 16.04.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com>: > > > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Cyril Ferlicot D. < > cyril.ferli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can people just explain to my why we have so many big threads each time >> a default settings is changed? >> > > Law of triviality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality > Because its natural to have personal preferences/opinions and easy > to bike-shed about those. I'm as guilty as the next guy. > > btw, I'm in favour of the board making these sorts of executive decisions > rather than voting. > Sure if a vote was 90% against the dark theme it would seem strange to go > against it, > but what if it was only 51%. I don't imagine that result really smoothing > community sentiment. > Now what about 55% or 60%? Where you draw the line now becomes an > executive decision. > > So sometimes its more efficient to just move than have continuous > discussions. Also there may > be a bigger picture to bring in more users/money (aka marketting) which we > don't hear > the details of. But people do need an opportunity to vent so the board > are not blind > to community sentiment. So just roll with it. > > cheers -ben > > >> >> I understand that some settings need a certain default value when it >> come for discover-ability of a feature. But why so many noise for >> feature that are totally taste dependent? The principle of settings is >> that some people will like the default one and some will not like it. >> That's the point. >> >> Why are people so afraid of settings? I have the impression that Pharo >> has no setting system each time I see those threads. >> >> Neverless, I agree that we should have a way at the first launch of >> Pharo on a computer to let the user define some common settings as >> Squeak does. It's a really cool feature of most IDEs (like Intellij for >> example). Probably too late for Pharo 6, but not for Pharo 7. >> >> I am just a little tired to see this many noise for things like that. >> >> -- >> Cyril Ferlicot >> https://ferlicot.fr >> >> http://www.synectique.eu >> 2 rue Jacques Prévert 01, >> 59650 Villeneuve d'ascq France >> >> >
