On Friday, February 03, 2012 09:49:57 AM Peter Bittner wrote: > 2012/2/2 Jeff Kunce <[email protected]>: > > to change anything against your principles will go nowhere. Or, in your > > words, "it's not up for discussion: please just accept it." > > Just a statement of reality, not a call for change or discussion. > > I actually do like this benevolent dictatorship. Btw, there are > several other, mostly successful projects, that share Pyjamas' fate; > examples include the Linux kernel, and Python. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life > > Just to make it clear that not everyone dislikes Luke's stubborn > sticking to (his) principles. We've seen enough FOSS projects failing, > because there was no strong leadership. I take this as a strong point > of the Pyjamas project.
Looking closely there is not even a dictatorship. Commit rights have been given out more easily then in most projects. It is more a do-ocracy. One common misperception in FOSS seems to be that anyone coder needs formal authorization to work on code or improve the website while all there is to it is sending patches upstream. More often then not lengthy discussions lead to anything but code. If one does not like the perceived leadership then just take over by being more active, improving weak spots etc. Regards, Sebastian Hilbert
