Re: Candidacy: Joachim Noreiko

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 05:18:21PM +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:57:09PM +0000, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> > > radically changed since. Mailing lists are strange, alien places
> > > to people who don't come from hacker culture. The same goes for
> > > IRC. When you finally
> > 
> > Small question: I saw one or two suggestions to force GNOME
> > developers to not use mailing lists or IRC. Do you support that
> > yes/no (meaning is that your intention as board member)?
> 
> If there were to be change like that, I think it should be a
> referendum of the whole gnome community.
> 
> I do not plan to propose a referendum on this. If other board members
> proposed one, I would want to know there was broad support from the
> community for such a change before agreeing it.

It is not quite what I wanted to hear[1], but close enough. You have my
vote :-)

> If there were a referendum to switch from mailing lists to another
> form of communication, then I would vote yes if I thought the proposed
> form was better.

[1] Personally, I think forcing developers not to use mailing lists is
not something that is either possible or something that should be done.
However, I do support having other forms of communications available for
new developers. Maybe in a year or so we have 5000 developers using
forums (or whatever) and a small hard code group still using mailing
lists. 

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Regards,
Olav