Le 12/09/2012 19:24, L. David Baron a écrit : > So I think one of the assumptions you're making is that it's good to > agree on priorities. Yes. I don't remember the full context, but it seemed like Brian King's assumption too.
> I think I disagree with that assumption. I think we do need to have > agreement on the high-level goals of the project, but I think it's > actually good to disagree over which aspects of it are higher > priority. That people within an open-source project disagree over > priorities is one of the things that lets open-source software have > higher overall quality than closed-source software. > > This is because there are tons of different things that affect the > quality of software, and different users care about different ones. > We need to worry about getting behavior correct, having clear user > interface, being fast, not using too much memory, not crashing, etc. > > In a tightly-managed project where the priorities are clearly > defined by someone in charge (whether that's an individual, a small > group of leaders, or a more democratic model like you seem to be > proposing), you're still going to end up with a set of official > priorities. Such priorities end up as official sanction to ignore > some aspects of quality in favor of others, for example, being > willing to sacrifice any amount of memory use in order to get a > speed improvement. I agree with you. Reading back what I've written on this thread, I realize that I've mostly talked about how to start a new Mozilla initiative (B2G, WebMaker, actions to follow a new business model...) or how to decide to "stop" one (SeaMonkey, Thunderbird...). Figuring out priorities within or between existing products/programs seems to be a slightly different topic for which I agree with everything you're saying. As an example, memory was always one "priority", but there was no one to embody it; it was an excellent decision to create MemShrink to fix this. David _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
