I see your point, but refusing www. does nothing but make pyjamas less
accessible to people. It is also not fixable with a bug patch.

How about from now on all communication/documentation regarding
pyjamas must be written in Esperanto because it is a language
liberated from the ties to any particular potentially evil country?




On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Sebastian Hilbert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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



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