init: API

[Mike A. Harris]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

>     Guidelines is the key. As far as I can tell there has been no effort
>     in the past to try to standardize config file syntax. Of course any
>     effort to force a standard on application developers is doomed, ...
> 
> 
> Out of curiosity, I would very much like to know why Fedora doesn't 
> setup a polling system to help make such decisions, especially 
> considering that Fedora is a community project.

First a list of people nominated to be "voters" would have to be
created.  Then, a list of people who are unarguably renowned for
their well reasoned sound technical judgement, leadership, and
decision making skills.  The latter group would vote on which of
the nominees in the former group they consider to also have
"sound technical judgement and good decision making skills".

After the round of voting completes, the people who are considered
unanimously to have sound decision making skills, etc. would then
theoretically be eligible to vote on future technical decisions
for the OS based on the technical merits of the issues at hand, and
the goals and objectives of the Fedora project as a whole.

That would be the basic foundation required to have a useful system
of "voting" on things.

Oh wait, I forgot, such decision making is already made by people
with sound technical judgement, leadership and decision making
skills, only without all of the voting nonesense.  ;oP