On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:15:36PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On 9/23/07, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ehr, you seem to be arguing that people shouldn't start their own > > projects, but rather join an existing one. IMO you cannot dictate what > > people do with their time. People will write the same application 5 > > different times, then again when some new language comes out. > > > > Pidgin is just as welcome to propose themselves to be part of the GNOME > > project. > > Said developer is free to do whatever they want with their time. Said
Ehr, why just use his name, Xavier? You message seems a bit harsh. > developer has asked for project resources to assist in his effort in a > competing with an existing project that gives users exactly what they need, No, he asked to be part of the GNOME project. Is is not about competing. > today. Are we going to help Empathy with it's effort to some day offer a > point-for-point feature match? That's what we are discussing. I don't believe this is what is meant with joining the GNOME project. It is not that we do a 'oh, lets reassign some persons from $PROJECT to Empathy'. > I'm saying it's a bad idea right now. Let's revisit it when it actually has > the features proposed. That is the only thing we should be discussing. Does it add value to the GNOME project? I only used it once, so no idea yet. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
