On Mar 30, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 30.03.2010 19:35, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: >> On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM, C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey, devs. As many of you know, a group of us met in NYC last week to talk >>>> about Subversion's direction and feature roadmap. I blogged[1] a bit about >>>> the meetings each night, but I realize that we still owe the community an >>>> official joint braindump. Look for that to come in the next couple of >>>> days, >>>> after we all dig ourselves out of last week's mail/task backlog and can >>>> solidify our thoughts into something comprehensible. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your patience! >>>> >>> Thanks for the writeup - I look forward to the 5yr plan. Muwhaha. =) >>> >> Year 0: Fire President of ASF. >> ... >> Year 5: Profit! >> > > Lack of historic perspective. The purpose of 5-year plans was never > profit but rather building a better society. Which did indeed every once > in a while include the installation of, um, more enlightened leadership. > Usually at a net loss for the majority of the subversives. :p
Caught me. :) Though, to be honest, we're only just now catching on to this, uh, vision, on this side of the pond. 'til now, *all* of our plans have been profit-driven (though they've mainly just been about driving quarterly earnings; rarely has the foresight been as lengthy as 5 years...) -Hyrum
