On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:05 +0200, Stefan Kost wrote: > Still its seems to have caught a lot of people by surprise. All the > people here that are not so much in favour of this change, seems to only > have heard of it *after* the decission has been made. Its totally > obvious that people in charge don't want to change it back. We should > learn form this incident and make this more public. Write a proposal to > DDL and not just inform about a decission. Thats all.
Offcourse, DDL has historically been proven to be a quick-and-easy decision making tool, never leading into way too lengthy e-mail threads. Like they say: it's better to ask for forgiving than it is to ask for permission. Or in this case: better to get things done than to risk hundreds of mails which only lead to an impasse. Atleast now there's a move made and there's always a possibility to discuss/revert/meet in the middle. While doing things in secret isn't great, doing a decision process via DDL will only lead to pain and stagnation. Getting a small team of trusted experts together (like e.g. the marketing team is doing right now at our hackfest) will be far more productive than to involve everyone all the time (you will always find someone that has it's pet peeve touched). Ruben _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
