[haiku-development] Re: [haiku] Re: V\OS Project Announcement (Haiku on linux)
- From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:52:10 +0000
30 juillet 2018 16:19 "Dario Casalinuovo" <b.vitruvio@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
Some of the Haiku developers were rightfully annoyed by this. We considered
setting up a private
mailing list, where only the contributors with commit access could discuss
things. Eventually,
this option was rejected, because the Haiku project tries to continue
working in an open way,
and let everyone a chance to express their ideas.
Can you send me any reference of where this has been discussed?
Since you like to discuss things openly, I expect you can give me some proof
of this.
Was this voted? If so where?
Most of the discussion was during lunchtime, at the coding sprint that followed
BeGeistert
where Sia Lang did not show up to present his work.
There was no vote, because the project works by reaching a common opinion after
discussing
the matters, not by voting and putting the "yes" and "no" camps against each
other, unless
we really can't achieve that (it happens very rarely). I like this way of doing
things,
because it allows for compromises, and there is no one losing the vote in the
end. It has
a downside which is that sometimes a discussion never reaches an agreement, and
things stay
as they were, so it may take considerable effort to convince everyone that a
change is
necessary. I think this is fine, maybe because I tend to resist change in
general. I prefer
"if it works, don't fix it" to "move fast and break things".
At that time we reached the conclusion that a private mailing list would be a
bad idea,
so we just did not create it, and that if people wanted to discuss things with
a restricted
set of people, they already had e-mail address from everyone, and doing it this
way reminds
them that contacting a subset of people directly and privately should be kept
for very specific
cases where going public is not desirable.
--
Adrien.
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