[openbeos] Re: Icon Design Contest submission

On 2006-08-14 at 13:13:43 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The reason that I am pointing this problem out is because I do not
> > think
> > Haiku is learning from its mistakes: this has happened before, it is
> > happening now, and will most likely happen again, as long as the
> > members
> > of the project do not seem to feel a need for change in this respect.
> > But then, if that is what everybody wants, so be it. :-)
> 
> "this has happened before" - what in all worlds has happened, anyway?
> We've come up with that contest idea on this list, and we made a news
> item to spread the word. The initial discussion goes on, and on, with
> positive insight, as well as criticism - the usual, AFAICT.
> Where is your problem? We hardly can be more open.
> 
> Haiku is a community effort - *everyone* who contributes is a member of
> Haiku. Anyone who contributes has something to say. There will be many
> situations where we have to do important decisions, and those can only
> be done by extracting the common sense of these discussions. Those that
> contribute the most have the most to say, naturally; that's kind of a
> reward for your contribution. But that still means that we have to
> agree to something, and there will always be people who won't like our
> decisions - there just should be many more people who will.

Axel, thank you. I tried, but I could not put this into better words. You 
have expressed my feelings very well.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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