[openbeos] Choosing The Browser
- From: "David Enderson" <DEnderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:44:33 -0600
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> To be a little pragmatic, let's contact these developers and=20
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> what we think. But first, of course, we need to know what we think.
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This post and other posts seem to have completely missed my point about =
contacting the browser developers, assembling them into a team, and =
letting THEM choose the browser they are going to work on. Now maybe we =
don't want that. Maybe we want to mandate the project and then try to =
convince them to work on it, but come on, folks. That's not going to =
work. We all do this development as a hobby. You are only motivated to =
work on something that YOU think is cool and fun. The reason you are on =
the net_server or Kernel team is because that is what you were most =
interested in or thought was the funnest. (Yes, I'm sure there are the =
dedicated few who might be best at kernel stuff so they agreed to be on =
the kernel team since noone else could do it, even though in their heart =
they would REALLY love to be doing OpenGL stuff. To those people, I =
thank you deeply.)
My point is: we can't decide the Browser project, and then expect all =
the browser developers who were not even a part of this project to =
abandon their favorite project to do what we tell them to do. I believe =
the only way they will be willing to abandon their own pet projects and =
focus on, finish, and *polish* ONE browser is for THEM to be the ones to =
decide which browser they will work on.
Of course I have my personal preference as to which browser *I* would =
like to see worked on, but that's not relevant because I'm not =
volunteering my time to do the work. :-)
Anyway, that's my humble thought. You don't have to agree with me. :-)
--David
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