Lennart:
On 01/27/12 10:06 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Fri, 27.01.12 09:54, Brian Cameron ([email protected]) wrote: Free software is not a democracy.
Thank goodness. Did I ever suggest free software had anything to do with a democracy? I personally would not think or suggest that good communication can only happen in a democracy.
When Jon and I decided to deprecate CK we looked for somebody who did a good job in maintaining this kind of low-level software, and we found a very capable person in Martin Pitt who we have worked with in the past, and has regularly contributed fixes to low-level components of the free desktop stack.
I am glad it is clear that maintainers in the GNOME community feel comfortable making such decisions without identifying stakeholders or making an effort to communicate with them. I think it is easier to have the right expectations when this is clear.
We think Martin is very qualified as a maintainer for this and Martin Pitt was willing to take over, and invest the time necessary to maintain CK.
Really, I am not unhappy with the decision. I am sure Martin will do a great job and am looking forward to working with him. I do trust your and Jon's ability to judge a good maintainer. If I am unhappy at anything, it is more the general lack of effort at communication at a time when the GNOME community is doing so much re-engineering of low level interfaces. My personal concern is that I worry that some stakeholders may loose interest in cooperative efforts if communication gets too bad. I think there already has been too much fragmentation in the FreeDesktop display manager space since GDM 2.22 made ConsoleKit a hard dependency. Better technical leadership would likely have avoided this fragmentation. But, what do I know? Sometimes fragmentation can be good for a free software project. I think the egcs project ended up making the gcc compiler a better product in the long run, for example.
Please work with Martin Pitt as soon as he takes over control, I am sure he'll be happy to work with you, too.
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