Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 16:42 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> William Jon McCann wrote:
> 
> > I agree with you that we need to have a motive to change and that
> > costs should be weighed carefully. We can make the case.
> 
> The objection Colin expressed was about the method; and on that
> matter, frankly, we are making a good job in alienating active members
> of our community, to the point our "GNOME is people" is no more but a
> slogan.[1]
> 
> We have active members using Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, OpenBSD,
> whatever, for whatever *good* reasons, and more often than not they
> will have nothing to do with GNOME.
> 
> You may not want to compromise with code, I want to compromise with
> people, this definitely takes longer, this takes emails, this takes
> discussions, this is in my opinion important.
> 
> And this certainly doesn't mean we are not going forward.

Talking more doesn't automatically mean that you're taking the right
decision.