re: Governance of Wine with respect to the Software Freedom Conservancy (update October 2011)

2011-10-08 Thread Dan Kegel
The real way to mount a revolt, of course, would be to fork wine and maintain a better version of it. The likelihood of that ever happening seems slim, but perhaps in 15 years, after HTML 5 takes over and users no longer run win32 apps, it's possible that something like that would happen naturally

Re: Governance of Wine with respect to the Software Freedom Conservancy (update October 2011)

2011-10-07 Thread Juan Lang
> As I said, our overlords are kind and benevolent and I'm sure that the > mention of "evil plans" was simply a joke as such wise and noble > developers could need harbor a malevolent thought. But, unless I've > been misreading this mailing list, all patches have to go through our > current enlight

Re: Governance of Wine with respect to the Software Freedom Conservancy (update October 2011)

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Curran
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Juan Lang wrote: > Hi Michael, > >> Not that I have any problems with our benevolent overlords, and not >> that I would likely achieve franchise with a scant 2 patches under my >> belt, but I can't help wondering how such a revolt would succeed >> seeing as the only

Re: Governance of Wine with respect to the Software Freedom Conservancy (update October 2011)

2011-10-07 Thread Juan Lang
Hi Michael, > Not that I have any problems with our benevolent overlords, and not > that I would likely achieve franchise with a scant 2 patches under my > belt, but I can't help wondering how such a revolt would succeed > seeing as the only method to achieve franchise-hood is controlled by > the

Re: Governance of Wine with respect to the Software Freedom Conservancy (update October 2011)

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Curran
Not that I have any problems with our benevolent overlords, and not that I would likely achieve franchise with a scant 2 patches under my belt, but I can't help wondering how such a revolt would succeed seeing as the only method to achieve franchise-hood is controlled by the same people one would b

Governance of Wine with respect to the Software Freedom Conservancy (update October 2011)

2011-10-06 Thread Jeremy White
Hi Folks, I try to send out a periodic message to the wine-devel mailing list outlining the 'corporate' structure of Wine and how some decisions are made. We work with the Software Freedom Conservancy. They manage the pieces of Wine that benefit from a formal organization, such as managing money