Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

[Maxim Udushlivy <maxim udushlivy gmail com>]

Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 00:33 +0400, Maxim Udushlivy wrote:
>   
> > Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >     
> > > I think the best shot at this would be to gather a small group that 
> > > agrees on some audience they want to try and do stuff for, and just 
> > > start doing it; I'm not sure how the overall GNOME boat can be turned up 
> > > front, it's probably not possible. The small group would have to be 
> > > prepared for potentially large divergence from the existing 
> > > gnome-panel/nautilus/etc. desktop codebase - they would need to be open 
> > > to doing very different things either instead or in addition, if that 
> > > made sense to provide the benefits to the audience.
> > >   
> > >       
> > "...gather a small group" - this reminds the infamous lack-of-leadership 
> > Gnome problem (at least from the outsider perspective)
> >
> > I was once lurking around planet.gnome.org and there was an interesting 
> > accident. One guy said about Israel that "it is evil" and another (Jeff 
> > Waugh?) was trying to moderate him.
> >     
>
> I'm going off-topic for the list, but I don't want any
> misinformation to spread.  I don't remember who it was
> that wanted political opinion silenced on the planet,
> but it absolutely was not Jeff.  The whole idea of the
> blog aggregator (and it was pretty much all his idea)
> is to let people see the personal lives of the people
> who make Gnome work.
>
> --
> Shaun
>   
May be "was trying" sounds a bit negative, but I completely support Jeff 
reply regardless of who asked him to do that.

Many people read planet.gnome; it's a public place, not a private home 
page. There is a good saying: where the freedom of another person 
starts, mine ends. Political propaganda limits freedom of the mind 
(there is a choice to completely ignore planet.gnome of course).