On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 12:54 -0600, inode0 wrote:
>
> I believe that what fundamentally makes the Fedora Project a great
> place to be is that it is an open community where the participants
> share a group of core values that guide them both individually and
> collectively toward an unwritten end that is worth pursuing
Perhaps the problem is we don't all agree on those core sets of values,
or how those values should guide us to what unwritten end. Or we
suspect we don't agree because so much of it is unwritten.
We are about to fall off the edge of the philosophical cliff now. I
really don't analyze how my values guide my actions. I approach the
check-out counter behind a little old lady. I could speed up and cut
in front of her, I could slow down and let her go first. I make a
decision which I believe is formed in large part by my values without
thinking about them.
If the assumption is that we all share these values, what are they?
The
four F's? Those are just vague enough to be practically meaningless in
this context.
Enumerating the values with surgical precision is meaningless too if
you want it to lead to an idea of what the Fedora distribution will
look like in 5 years. It just doesn't work that way.
John