On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:17 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > The comparisons between LPI, governments and management models of open > source projects were making my head hurt. It was certainly not my > intention, with what I wrote, to be considered a source of negativism.
I apologize. I was trying to show that I prefer the Meritocracy "put up" + Executive "decision" approach versus the Democracy "my opinion counts" attitude.** **NOTE: Where much of this comes from ... When I was a small-time Debian maintainer, I _never_ gave my opinion because I _knew_ I did not have the merit to do so. But I constantly saw several not-so-worthy people "chastize" some of the much bigger contributors, including denying maintainer status because of some non-related politics. That's what I was alluding to, there is clearly a _lot_ of Democracy going on. A _lot_ of it is good (better than Fedora IMHO/IMPO), but sometimes it's just downright people being _nasty_. It very much relates to what I see on LPI "Discuss." A lot of non "put up" people complaining about many things. If you don't like what you see, volunteer! Many Debian maintainers do! Of course, again, there are also a lot of well-publicized incidents of decisions gone wrong. I truly hope the DCC Alliance can do for Debian what Red Hat has done with Fedora. After all, such an alliance of multiple vendors would be _better_ than what Fedora can offer from 1 vendor's focus. It's not that Fedora is perfect. But when it comes to "Executive Decisions" on Fedora, they are made, and things move forward _now_, not later. In fact, you see the opposite out of Fedora. Some people spewing off because they got over-riden by the Meritocracy in charge, or at some point, the Executive who has to move to meet industry demands. My favorite was "Blue Curve" -- a simple, unified theme for KDE _and_ GNOME. It was a decision by and for industry -- that did _not_ change KDE at all -- but 90% of people I talked to thought it was a change to KDE's core libraries and applications because of the "rhetoric" of one person who didn't like the "Executive Decision." That's all I meant. Because when it comes to a combination of community and business needs, most organizations choose Red Hat and Fedora. I see a lot of promise in the DCC Alliance and have always recommended the Progeny attitude of "enterprise management as a process" _over_ Red Hat's "enterprise is a subscription," but Progeny is not Debian (the DCC Alliance should be eventually), whereas Fedora is, ultimately, Red Hat. And that's where the Meritocracy gets its Executive decisions. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs413.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------- Fission Power: An Inconvenient Solution _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
