On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 02:54 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Anna Marie Dirks
What a big jerkbird! So lazy! So community-tearing! Definitely the work of
an evil, evil noncontributor.
Anna, as I mentioned in another email, this frustration is about a broader
problem we have in our
quote who=Lex Hider
(A similar set of issues were expressed more eloquently in my GUADEC talk,
if you want to watch that video.)
do you have a link?
http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/Jeff_Waugh_-_Project_Topaz.ogg
- Jeff
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FOSDEM 2006: Brussels, Belgium
Hi all,
My god, I am a little surprised at the discussion that has resulted
from a small comparison I made on my blog. :P I want to be entirely
clear in my opinion here - I was not criticising Novell for these
changes, just making the comparison.
In terms of the 'design behind closed doors', I
Le mercredi 08 février 2006 à 04:49 -0200, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini a
écrit :
I think the process used by Novell is very common in the GNOME community
(and Free Software in general).
For example take metacity. Sawfish was the default window manager, so
Havoc could have started a
quote who=Anna Marie Dirks
What a big jerkbird! So lazy! So community-tearing! Definitely the work of
an evil, evil noncontributor.
Anna, as I mentioned in another email, this frustration is about a broader
problem we have in our community than the particular acts of contributing
organisations
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:28 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
If you guys want a specific productive suggestion, I think these are two
de facto directions that could just be adopted; one is a kind of
building block platform shared among the GNOME desktop, Maemo, GPE, XFCE
even [2]; it might
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 21:54 +0100, Jon K Hellan wrote:
However, if we decide to target a niche audience, on a niche operating
system, that's niche squared. I doubt if that's sustainable.
Didn't say niche, I said specific. The group can still be large. There
are many, many well-defined subsets
quote who=Havoc Pennington
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 21:54 +0100, Jon K Hellan wrote:
However, if we decide to target a niche audience, on a niche operating
system, that's niche squared. I doubt if that's sustainable.
Didn't say niche, I said specific. The group can still be large. There are
Em Qua, 2006-02-08 às 12:16 +1100, Jeff Waugh escreveu:
quote who=Dan Winship
Two words: bike shed[1]. Or actually, stop energy[2] works too. Your
pick.
This is a very sorry state of affairs for GNOME. But it is not only Novell
and its employees who have adopted this commons-sapping,
