Re: IRC channels in gnome development

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

On 06/02/2011 14:13, Gendre Sebastien wrote:
> Le samedi 05 février 2011 à 11:43 -0600, Paul Cutler a écrit :
>> Development is not a democracy
> 
> For a personal project, no. But Gnome is not your personal project, it's
> a community project.

Even if the practice shows that it is good to have dictator (see Linux).
<PERSONAL>I appreciate the cleanness of GNOME interface. I like that "If
there could be one <<do what I want button>> we would implement only
that one". I don't like obviously removing features I use but I'd like
to hear rationale of the decisions - I may agree that the change is
justified even if my legitimate use of software is removed or that I use
it incorrectly.</PERSONAL>

> The light of this, you have a duty of openness to
> the whole community.
> 

That's another matter. Openness and transparency is FLOSS projects are
orthogonal.

Regards