You mean excluding parts of the community from participating in the decision-taking processes?
2012/7/16 Adrian Crum <[email protected]> > No, it smells like the current goal of moving things we don't want in the > main project to external projects. This type of decision-making has been > going on for years. > > -Adrian > > > On 7/16/2012 9:45 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > >> I agree with Ruth. This sounds like a user requirement. And the community >> should decide on this. >> >> Furthermore, the remark 'users might like a new feature, but that doesn't >> mean the dev community wants it in the project' smells like measuring with >> double standards; as if the meritocratic principle doesn't apply when the >> committers don't want it in. Or as if changes always get in, when only the >> committers want it. >> >> 2012/7/15 Adrian Crum >> <adrian.crum@sandglass-**software.com<[email protected]> >> > >> >> Ruth, >>> >>> I understand your viewpoint. Personally, I prefer to present my ideas to >>> the dev list to see if it is something the dev community wants included >>> in >>> the project. Users might like a new feature, but that doesn't mean the >>> dev >>> community wants it in the project. If there was no interest from the dev >>> community, then I would offer it as an add-on product and announce it on >>> the user list. >>> >>> I am also a user, and the design was based on the requirement to monitor >>> and control server performance. I suppose I could go to the user list for >>> more ideas, but the code I'm planning to commit is pretty basic, and >>> users >>> will be free to enhance it in whatever way they please. >>> >>> -Adrian >>> >>> >>> On 7/15/2012 12:13 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote: >>> >>> Hi Adrian: >>>> Shouldn't this be discussed on the "user" list? IMHO Words like >>>> "applications" and "stats about services and entities"...those are all >>>> indicative of user requirements, not developer requirements. >>>> >>>> Users should be driving requirements gathering and analysis for OFBiz >>>> and >>>> not developers. >>>> Just my 2 cents. >>>> Regards, >>>> Ruth >>>> >>>> > >
