Maxim Udushlivy wrote: > 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? > Additional point: - narrowing by scope tells people *what* things to do: the freedom is sacrificed (impossible for Gnome?) - narrowing by style tells people *how* to do things: people are educated (if the style is good)
>> 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) Typo: ...(*or* 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
