On Friday 10 July 2009 01:13:59 Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > > I know, it isn't easy to decide on this matter and we clearly can't > satisfy everyone right from the start (maybe never). But I hope you > understand that for me as an Xfce developer having to rely *entirely* > on other people's good will is not acceptable.
I surely understand that. I just don't know a simple solution how to solve this in a satisfying way for everybody. > I said I wasn't sure it's good enough. Maybe have a project list called > "Freedesktop.org Members" or something, and have representatives (and > please not the release teams again ;)) of these members decide on new > membership requests? This would go the route of establishing freedesktop.org as a formal organization. It might not be a bad thing, but it comes with a lot of work and has its own risks. > See, here it comes again - when does a desktop environment end up being > "small". When it has 30% of the user base on its side? Then we'd never > have more than three projects involved. BTW, I don't see fd.o as a > desktop-only platform. There also are a number of (conceptionally) > desktop-independent but still desktop-focused projects out there. Which projects do you have in mind with this? And to get a clear picture: Which communities besides GNOME and KDE would be willing to take the rights and the responsibility to decide about acceptance of specs? Xfce has already made it clear. Who else? -- Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
