Hi Emily, On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 10:27 -0400, Emily Gonyer wrote: > Then the design team ought to be more open about what exactly 'their' > vision for gnome is, as well as open to other ideas/concepts. > Insisting on doing things their way, while being extremely vague as to > what exactly their way *is* is not helpful to the rest of the > community who is trying to get stuff done. IMHO the entire community > is rather insulated from itself and rather hard to break into w/o > serious help from someone already on the 'inside' as it were. If you > haven't been around for years, no-one seems to particularly care what > you have to say. Even finding these sorts of discussions isn't exactly > easy, let alone making your voice heard.
Your criticism here has merit, but I would assert that there is some degree of this kind of insularity in many communities and organizations. A lot of communities rely implicitly on what in politics is called "political capital" - where to cause a change, particularly one that implies work by other people, you need to have built up some goodwill and/or reputation. In my work on the engineering side, I react completely differently to people who I know have contributed something already versus ones I don't know, because I have some assurance that by helping them solve their problem, they are likely to help me later in some way. But again, I'm not saying that there's no problem - there clearly are things we as a community could do significantly better. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
