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Besides Opensource is very much based on the old system of "Don't talk, code".<BR>
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If you believe you have a superior way of doing things, code it, release it to the public (release early, release often.. all very bazar vs cathedral right? <IMG SRC="cid:1132750967.8610.15.camel@cch" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":-)" BORDER="0">) and if its any good and more people agree its a right solution, it will be adopted mainstream. That's a "community" way of doing things<BR>
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Not telling redhat how to spend their man hours that they pay for .. We can only try to give a general feedback <BR>
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In other words, if you'd really like to see something in fedora, code it, and they will come! <IMG SRC="cid:1132750967.8610.15.camel@cch" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":-)" BORDER="0"><BR>
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On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 07:51 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Arthur Pemberton wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Guidelines is the key. As far as I can tell there has been no effort</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> in the past to try to standardize config file syntax. Of course any</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> effort to force a standard on application developers is doomed, ...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Out of curiosity, I would very much like to know why Fedora doesn't </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> setup a polling system to help make such decisions, especially </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> considering that Fedora is a community project.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">First a list of people nominated to be "voters" would have to be</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">created. Then, a list of people who are unarguably renowned for</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">their well reasoned sound technical judgement, leadership, and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">decision making skills. The latter group would vote on which of</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the nominees in the former group they consider to also have</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">"sound technical judgement and good decision making skills".</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">After the round of voting completes, the people who are considered</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">unanimously to have sound decision making skills, etc. would then</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">theoretically be eligible to vote on future technical decisions</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">for the OS based on the technical merits of the issues at hand, and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the goals and objectives of the Fedora project as a whole.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">That would be the basic foundation required to have a useful system</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">of "voting" on things.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Oh wait, I forgot, such decision making is already made by people</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">with sound technical judgement, leadership and decision making</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">skills, only without all of the voting nonesense. ;oP</FONT>
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