BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > I think you are 100% right and that it is important for GNOME to > narrow its focus. For example, if GNOME limited its focus to computers > with 256 MB of RAM, then... I was proposing to narrow Gnome by ideology (implementation style), Havok - by desktop tasks (implementation scope), you - by hardware requirements (implementation details). What is more viable?
> And it is not just the memory requirements for GNOME that needs to be > decided. I agree that choosing a specific target niche would be very > useful. Problem is, how are you going to do it? GNOME doesn't have a > BFDL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFDL) so WHO would decide what the > target niche is? Many of the most successful free software projects > (Linux and Python for example) have a BFDL, that person has a clear > vision about how they want their product to be. Everyone else has just > to accept that vision or leave the project. GNOME is different in that > regard, different developers have different visions and when they > clash, big debates erupt on this mailing list. > > Debates that really doesn't solve the problems and doesn't find a > common ground... > > There is an interesting observation on how laws are being developed in the USA: they are formulations of common practices. I.e. those laws do not try to change behavior of people, instead they enforce something that already exists and works. That's why I propose with a pure conscience a position of Gnome Moderator (who is not a Dictator but an anti-crisis manager). It is very common for an on-line community to have a moderator. With a moderator endless debates would be impossible since there will be a man to whom you could prove that your practices (of vision of practices of others) are efficient and deserves to become a law. Currently people just express their opinions without any effect - a boiling water inside a teapot that could otherwise become a steam engine. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
