On 09/10/2010 12:52 PM, Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, but if the core team knows everything, if you really
> mean everything, then, why using a community?
> 
> I think it was not really what you meant, because if you would think
> like that you make the biggest mistake and don't see what you think you do.
> 
> Despite of that, it is not most interesting what you know! Instead the
> interest lies in what you do NOT know! There the community can
> contribute a lot, because I think you admit now that you still don't
> know it ALL. Binary thinking does not work "mit Projekt Leitung", but is
> excellent with solving problems.
> 
> :-)
> 
> It lies a contradiction in what you said, so not to frighten new readers
> on this thread away, I only wanted to clarify.


I'm not really getting what you are hinting at here, because the context
of your lines is unclear to me.

But to pick up on one issue you *might* be aiming at, this list of mine
was not to silence people by saying "hey, we already know all of your
wishes", but rather to raise awareness that we are facing a very broad
range of topics, both within and without immediate visibility to the
casual observer, and that only a small fraction of them can be addressed
at anyone time. This gets easily overlooked when people think about the
question "why don't they do X?!".

We don't "use" our community (funny term, actually), we share. And
integrating new people into the project, in whatever role, is not an
easy task, especially as not many people are willing to go through a
process of regularly answering questions on the mailing list, open
well-documented bugs, provide patches, regularly submit edits for the
manual, take over responsibility for orphaned contributions, or create
and run a country- or domain-specific qooxdoo community on their own,
reliably and with a long-term commitment. Which I fully comprehend,
since everybody is fully absorbed with their own tasks. But that also
means many things are left undone.

T.

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