Nicolas Chauvat wrote: >On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:11:33PM +0100, Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: > > >>I agree, but if you are supposed to use a piece of paper and a pen to >>write an essay, are you going to complain about how bad the tools were >>for writing and how much better a typewriter would have been as an >>excuse for not having written the essay? >> >> > >In this case she got her company to provide the software she needed to >do the job. I do not call that an "excuse for not writing the essay". > >Whoever does the work choses the tools. If CPS gets dropped then so be >it. Plone was dropped before it (and *I*', among others, had spent >time with it) and pure Zope was dropped before that (and *I*, among >others, had spent time as well). EuroPython happened whatever tool >got used. I am sure it will happen again this year even if the >organizers decide to work with Dreamweaver[*]. > >Oh, and actually what Jacob was proposing (rest documents stored in >svn and turned to html) was far from stupid, but since he is not the >one scheduled to do the work he does not get to chose either :) > >Could this stop now? Could we let Benedikt and whoever is commited to >take care of the site go ahead with what they want to use? > > >
FYI, you missed the point. My comments were not about the tools; it was about commitment from participants. I have no suggestion whatsoever concerning the tools that are going to be used this year: Participants propose the solutions they like, and once a solution has been selected by a common agreement (as it was done on IRC during a meething in december las year), the contributors should get in "contribution mode", not in the "I-don't-like-the-software" mode or in the "I'm-going-to-evalute-the-workflow" mode. Organizing a conference is not about evaluating or selling software. /JM _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
