Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:11:31 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Relevance of steering (was Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object) Message-ID: <200302052111.h15LBa174127@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes:
> At 02:19 AM 2/5/2003, Mark Murray wrote:
>> Feature requests, advocacy, bug reports, documentation submession are
>> just _some_ of the many ways a non-programmer can contribute.
> And get no say whatsoever in the direction or future of the project.
Is this really important?
I thought the point of any open source operating system was to allow
people with different ideas of direction to all co-exist under the
same banner. Thus, if you want a project to go a different way, you
come up with the parts and pieces necessary to make the project go
that way. Perhaps others help you. Then you have the choice of turning
around and submitting that to -core or whomever to see if it gets
included. If not, that's their loss, and onward you go.
This implies that, if you don't like the direction, you either a)
change it for yourself, b) live with it, or c) find another place to
be.
Given the preceeding mindset, I'm not sure I understand why a formal
"say" in the direction or future of FreeBSD is important. Can you
please enlighten me?
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Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org
>>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<<
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they'll say 'no.' If you ask them do they want a feature on
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they'll say, 'Yes.'"
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