On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:19 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote:
> > > Yet you think the solution to attracting new developers is to > wrap the > processes up in red tape and technical boards or design > boards? Surely > Free Software is supposed to be about meritocracy, not about > boards > dictating how an individual project should be run. > > > > Well currently there is a GNOME Shell meritocracy among the RH > employees. How is that meritocracy for the community. > Yes I think the solution is setting up boards. It is not a Meritocracy > as soon as sole responsibilities are given to a group of individuals > affiliated with the same corporation. > so, we complain that companies don't contribute enough upstream, and when a big team of developers from one company works on a new project, we don't like it? So what's the problem, that we want more non-RH people working on it? Since the development has been open for more than a year, I don't see anything preventing non-RH people to do so. As for giving responsibilities to a group of individuals, it is what happens in all GNOME modules. So, I don't see why we would need a board for gnome-shell and not for gnome-control-center, nautilus or others, or are you suggesting to add a huge bureaucracy for every non-trivial change/development that we do? _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
