Il giorno lun, 27/06/2011 alle 09.34 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Giovanni Campagna > <scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote: > [...] > > > Hey Giovanni, > > this email is really too long to answer. Queuing dozens of > unanswerable questions doesn't make the whole any more answerable... I know, it was very long, but I didn't expect a full point-by-point reply. Just a global answer that the problems are acknowledged and something is being done. > Just a few points: > > - Going from 2.x to 3.0 is really not comparable to going from 2.28 to > 2.30 or from 2.30 to 2.32. Why do you even compare these ? It is very > much to be expected that some people are upset and uncomfortable with > the amount of new and changed things in 3.0; after all, this was the > first major overhaul of the desktop in ~10 years. I've been following only since 2.28, so that's my experience, and I expected some more noise for 3.0, but not this difference. If you say it is normal, then probably it is, and everything's fine. > - Saying that the release team is 'responsible for the whole community > and making the final decisions' is putting a bit too much on our > shoulders. We are neither the spokespeople of GNOME nor are we the > designers of GNOME; the role of the release team is mainly to ensure > that our release process runs smoothly. And yes, that does include > interacting with marketing and design, but we are not the ones doing > it all ourselves. The release team has the technical lead, given that you decide what goes in and what stays out, at the feature and module level. By extension, I see that as being in charge of final decisions, in case they cannot be made by traditional means because of dissent. Is this wrong? If so, who is responsible? > - But yes, we do need direction and goals for the project. Absent a > 'strong man', the best we can do is to keep relying on the same basic > principles that we always have: meritocracy and > doing-wins-over-talking. Meritocracy would be ideal, but how do you judge merit? And what if it is merit in different fields (say, design and development)? Giovanni
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