On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 10:41:25AM +1000, Weaver wrote: > > > > This is the last message I want to see about the details of logos and > > aesthetics. And I bet I'm not the only one. > > Quite possibly not, but this is easily fixed in the header.
No, it isn't. > Then these are just deleted as any other thread of little interest to > *that particular list member* is. I demand that every list member is to jump on one foot while wearing underwear on your head and singing your national anthem. I can do it, I see no reason why you all can't -- all to accomodate me, of course. > I think that creating a separate list destroys the value of the open > source potential. Every now and again, the least interested person Those who care, will match their subscriptions. Those who don't, won't. > might contribute something of value. Some more and some even more than > that. Little point in dividing what is stronger as a combined effort. Look, you just ask that everybody will match *your* expectations, now you're expecting the exact opposite? I'm sensing some mixed signals, there. Try for some consistency in your expectations. > Look at the Debian lists. It has a dedicated 'firewall' list for > example, but most of the discussion on firewalls takes place on > Debian-user, because that's the one all the sys. admins. are subscribed > to, predominantly. > > What is a pain is subscribing to half a dozen different lists to keep So you won't subscribe to a mailing list -- which is an *once* event, yet you expect hundreds to thousand readers to *each* read a message, *then* deciding whether it fits their interests, *every* fucking time? If you're that unreasonable, I wonder how unreasonable your opinions elsewhere are going to be. > tabs on what is going on. Or arriving at the end, or end of a stage, of > of a project, seeing things you think could have been done better, but > had no input at the appropriate time. > > The strength of open source is accessible community. > Fragmented division is the conventional and already failed > structure - rather obvious when you look around and it doesn't > produce the same product as the one that is the result of a > continuous, open consultative process. You'd rather have technical people leave, and the verbal fluffers remain, do you? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
