lør, 21 06 2008 kl. 11:33 -0700, skrev Luis Villa: > +1. This is not a gigantic company- you don't have to persuade the > management to get permission to innovate. You have the code, and > potentially you have the idea. So JFDI. If it is worthwhile, more > people will come.
That's a cool acronym, but hasn't that been the standing procedure since, well, ever? Sure, it has produced a desktop environment beyond anything I could personally conceive, but is that a particularly interesting metric? I think most end-users could care less about the flamewars on this and other lists. Let's look instead at how likely GNOME is too sustain innovative development. Hypothetically speaking, if I have a brilliant idea which require cooperation from the maintainers of module X, Y and Z, how likely is it that I will keep trying to JFDI if all said maintainers refuse to cooperate and tell me to JFDI, citing a desire to work on _their_ respective brilliant ideas? How likely is it that I will stick around in the GNOME ecosystem rather than migrate to, oh say, Windows where the development community and the potential for collaboration is much much larger and I even have a decent chance of being paid for my work? I think you can count on most innovative folks being at least as disinterested in being told to JFDI! as you are in working on their ideas or listening to their visions - personally I don't see how this fight-club attitude is more likely to save GNOME than a degree of formal leadership or communication about interoperability. -- Anders Feder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list