On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 14:54, Adam Treat wrote: > The problem stems from the nature of the mono-hackers list and the > consequences of limiting participation on technical discussions of Mono to > those with no avowed interest in, or support of, similar projects. Once > again, I don't mind Ximian limiting access to confidential information. I am > concerned about limiting access to technical discussions because of an > expressed interest in a competing project. >
For the sake of the non-GNOME people on the list, the exact same brouhaha happened with GNOME. What eventually happened after the uproar died down was, as Adam suggests here, a division of the list into gnome-hackers and gnome-private. gnome-hackers continued on as a "core development" list[1], and gnome-private faded into the background, playing the role of ultimate puppet master, waiting for the day to announce to the world that yes, it does INDEED have a doomsday device, and is not afraid to use it. Okay, I made that last bit up. But the point remains that such a division is entirely workable, and Miguel has already been through a similar one, and I'm sure he will handle the current situation just as reasonably. -- Rachel [1] Actually, I haven't been subscribed to gnome-hackers for a while since changing email addresses, but looking at the archives, it's mostly become a cross-posting zone for desktop-devel, gnome-announce, and gtk-devel.
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