Excerpts from Philippe's message of Tue Aug 31 21:38:27 +1000 2010: > So, I am wondering if an Open Governance could have a role in the > feature acceptance process.
Open governance is not about setting Nokia's priority for directing their efforts on developing Qt and related software, it is about opening up existing software and infrastructure to enable a meritocracy[1], such that all participants (inside and outside Nokia) can cooperate on a level footing to do what they wish, hopefully free of conflict, dealing only with technical problems (like, 'is this implementation good enough'). I'm not a Nokian, so I can't really comment on how processes work for setting priorities for changes to Qt work, so I'll leave that to someone else. My personal recommendation would be that if you want something to happen, you have a varying scale of options open to you: 1) File an issue in JIRA (or vote for it if it already exists) 2) Develop and submit your changes yourself (see: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/the-qt-contribution-model/). This is what this list aims to empower, encourage, and assist. 3) Pay someone else to develop it for you - there are a large and ever growing number of freelance and consultancy companies which offer services in and around the FOSS and Qt ecosystem - such as Collabora[2] (my own employer). Hope this helps with your understanding of the purpose of this list. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy [2]: http://www.collabora.co.uk > Philippe > -- Robin Burchell http://rburchell.com _______________________________________________ Opengov mailing list Opengov@qt-labs.org http://lists.qt-labs.org/listinfo/opengov
