On Monday 16 May 2016 23:37:17 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Montag, 16. Mai 2016 22:59:59 CEST you wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > > On Tuesday 10 May 2016 22:48:01 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 17:18:39 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > ... > > > > > > Both positions are perfectly valid, of course. Now the problem is: How > > > > can > > > > we tell what KDE as a whole puts more emphasis on, when nobody but us > > > > voices their opinion? > > > > > > Maybe post to a few more mailing lists, e.g. kde-devel, plasma-devel, > > > kde- > > > core-devel, kde-frameworks-devel, is there a calligra-dvel ? > > > > I have the impression this is not going well here. > > How can we get more people to participate ? > > Simply post to k-c-d and k-f-d ? > > Or try with some controversial post ? ;-) > > Hi Alex, > thank you for reminding me of the email I had been wanting to write today: > To be honest, I don't think the reach of this mailing list is the problem. > I've heard from quite a few people who have been following this discussion, > but have not participated in it (for various reasons). > Therefore, I changed plans. Instead of trying to get more people to > participate in the discussion here, I will do what I'm trained to do: I'll > conduct a survey. > > I think we've already come quite far with the draft and I don't think we > need much more open discussion. We have a quite good draft, but in several > points, we have your personal opinion against my personal opinion, and now > I think the next step whould be to find out what the majority (especially > the "silent majority") thinks. > > Tomorrow I will try to identify the points which are still contested (and > I'm happy for you or others to contribute to that as well) and put them in > a survey (along with those on which we agree, just to make sure the > majority agrees with us as well) which I will spread via the Dot, this > list, the ev- membership list and maybe kde-devel just to be sure. > > This survey will also invite people to join the mailing list discussion, but > will primarily aim to just get numbers on those issues where we don't know > what the majority thinks. > > While I'm confident that we have found a Vision which everybody agrees to, I > feel that for some points of the Mission, we'll have to go with a majority > vote, because there are competing standpoints which are both valid but > cannot really be harmonized. On the other hand, I do not think the > standpoints are so far apart that those who prefer the minority position > would not be able to identify with the Mission as a whole anymore if we > adopted the majority position. > > So, unless there are strong arguments against this approach, this is what I > will do.
Sounds good, I'm happy to help. Alex _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
