ons, 08,.02.2006 kl. 23.20 +1100, skrev Jeff Waugh: > <quote who="Alan Cox"> > > > It isn't about "Design by community" but "Design IN the community". > > *Exactly* - and it's so easy to fall to laziness in the face of all the > challenges Dan so eloquently explained in his email... and that's what has > been happening in GNOME for a long time now. Let's break the cycle! > > While the Linux process has its warts, there are two things it is great at > that we should mention here: First, a fairly easy to understand technical > and social leadership - decisions get made. Second, a pretty uncompromising > approach to design in the community - it's really hard to drop a pre-cooked > hairball (cat hair *or* angel hair) into the kernel process without getting > roasted, spanked and harshly reviewed. > I think the main difference here is that most of the design/review/audit process for the linux-kernel happens on the mailing list[s] and we tell people to go argue about it in bugzilla. The reason we point people to other lists/bugzilla is exactly that we have the problem of too few eyes/minds and too many mouths on desktop-devel-list for example. We're not going to get around that by creating yet another mailing list every time we get annoyed by some thread that propelled into a useless semantic discussion or whatever.
I think we'd be served well by making desktop-devel-list be *the* place for discussion about development and design issues and use other tools like bugzilla etc to complement this where that makes sense. If we compare ourselves to the linux-kernel we're seeing ridiculously small amounts of mail to our list compared with them. Use your power to delete a thread or a message if something is of no interest to you. Cheers Kjartan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
