On Monday 05 January 2015 23:57:40 Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Jan Kundrát <j...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Monday, 5 January 2015 06:05:33 CEST, Ben Cooksley wrote: > >> Ease of installation and it's the availability of the necessary > >> interpreters within mainstream distributions should be more than > >> sufficient criteria here. Limiting it by any other criteria is playing > >> pure favouritism to a given set of language(s) and unnecessarily > >> limits our options. > > > > Ben, you and Jeff appear to disagree with my point that e.g. requiring a > > PHP tool to be installed client-side on each developers' and > > contributors' machine might be a little bit discouraging. It is OK to say > > that you disagree, but it doesn't prove the point to be any less valid. > > It's fine to have people assign varying importance to different > > evaluation criteria, so please do not use your sysadmin hat to > > unilaterally remove this "pure favoritism" just because you do not see > > any value in it. > > > > My impression was that we're gathering a list of possible requirements and > > *then* we, as a community, are going to assign some importance factor to > > each and every item raised. It is therefore acceptable to have mutually > > exclusive criteria at this point, or even bits which some of us might find > > to be totally irrelevant. They are going to be sorted out be community's > > consensus, I suppose. > > The list of requirements is first gathered from the community. We then > summarize it with items being weighted based on the level of support > mentioned by various people and send it back. If everyone is broadly > happy we then go ahead and prepare solutions which meet this list of > requirements. There is no community level sorting of the items because > items don't have a priority - it is a best effort basis to meet all of > the requested features and functions. > > These proposals are accompanied by the pros and cons each faces, along > with a recommendation for the one we believe best fits the needs of > the community. > You can see an example of this in the initial git.kde.org setup which > Sysadmin did many years ago (2010 I think).
Hm, why don't we do a prioritization poll? Quite some items raised by others are totally unimportant to me, and probably vice versa. While I agree that it would be nice to make everyone happy, I doubt that's going to work out. If we concentrate on the important aspects first, the admins would have less work and most people are still happy. Bye -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de
