On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:22:27PM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:56 +0000, Richard Moore wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:11:01PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > fd.o does not 'accept' standards. It does not have any process for > > > conferring standardisation or otherwise. All it does is host various > > > documents (as well as random other stuff) in the hope that some of it is > > > useful. > > > > Unfortunately that is not the perception people are given. People > > talk about it as if conferring standardisation is *exactly* what > > it does. > > People have all sorts of ideas of what freedesktop is, but the > perception given by the projext is surely that which is specified on the > front page: [snip] > > Its pretty clear on this issue IMHO, although we might need to work a > bit on moderating peoples expectations from freedesktop.org. >
I totally agree that the web page makes this clear, but unfortunately lots people haven't actually bothered to read even the front page. Moderating people's expectations is something that I think is worth doing, though I'm not really sure how it can be done. :-( Cheers Rich. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
