[haiku-inc] Re: Updating the donat-o-meter...
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Public Haiku-inc List <haiku-inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:41:22 -0700
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Sean Collins <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> then what is leadership if it instills no direction ?
But nobody ever said Haiku, Inc. represented "leadership" of the Haiku
project. A lot of people do assume this, however, so I understand the
confusion.
In the grand scheme of things, Haiku, Inc. could probably disappear
tomorrow and the project would continue to live on. This is healthy
for a FOSS project, IMO, but others might disagree.
About the closest thing Haiku, Inc. represents in 'decision making'
for the project is how to spend donor funds for paid development. So
far, Haiku, Inc. has very much tried to spend the funds on projects
that get things closer to "R1". Projects that have received funding
have generally been items voted on by the contributors some years back
as "blockers" for an R1 release. There may be disagreement about
whether all of these are indeed R1 blockers, but Haiku, Inc. didn't
make that decision, the project did as a whole. It doesn't help that
very few devs have requested to do funded development - so we haven't
really had a lot of choices available to us. I think there have been
situations where our use of funds angers a larger number of people,
and we are aware of that - we do pay attention.
Feel free to speak up and propose new ways to use funds - if the ideas
aren't too far-fetched, we would certainly be interested.
- Urias
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