On Monday 02 February 2009 12:02:01 Andrew Flegg wrote: > I certainly *wouldn't* be happy if - at the last minute - the karma > requirement was dropped again.
Eh???? I am not happy that the karma requirement, which was dropped after protest the last time around, is being raised again at the last minute! I obviously had exactly the opposite assumption from you: I had assumed that in the absence of a proposal to the contrary, the same rules as last time would be in place. > There's been plenty of time for people > to garner 25 karma points; Yes. That is a good point. So, I would like to hear from anyone who might still be affected by this new proposal to re-instate the 25-points rule to understand if it is likely to disqualify people who should reasonably be considered part of the community. To achieve that, I think it is essential that if the council is proposing to re-instate the 25-points rule that this is announced in a topic on ITT and people are given a chance to express their view. > The proximity of > time someone raises an issue to a deadline is, admittedly, > understandable; but it dramatically reduces their ability to convince > me. I agree. But I am willing to consider a suggestion to re-instate the 25-point rule even at this late stage. > I also strongly disagree with those who say that karma shouldn't be > used for this... Karma has moved from just measuring developer contribution to a wider measure of contribution to the Maemo community. That certainly makes it more suitable to use as a basis than it was, but it still effectively excludes users of the Maemo community (consumers rather than contributors). Maybe that is the way it should be: maybe the council **should** represent contributors rather than users, but we should at least get the opinion of the users on whether they care. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
