Re: IRC channels in gnome development

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:41:59AM -0800, Baybal Ni wrote:
> Guys, for a sake of a sanity. I've been around gnome since pre 2.0
> times. And all times up to now we supposed that OSS is about
> democratic process, where programmers are not told buy big enterprise

General attitude is that it is a meritocracy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy

Or: People who do stuff decide (merits).

> daddy what to write. Now, you former windows/sco/ibm/sun programmers
> are coming and saying that is wasn't. Yes, there are some big

You can do what you want. However, it is still not a democracy. Might
not be accepted by a maintainer.

> developers who can steer the way of a project, but nobody up to now
> just came I said what you have just said!

Search for e.g. "meritocracy site:gnome.org".

> You can't complete your shell if you drop off all the remaining
> developers of the boat. Shell is already a buggy hell, that will take
> many months just to stabilize. Now, probably you realize that simply
> dumping your privately developed project on a community in hope that
> it will accept and maintain it doesn't work.

If you read up on meritocracy you'll notice that it is decided by the
people who are making it and are maintaining it.

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Regards,
Olav