On Thursday 06 of August 2009, Lubos Lunak wrote:
The sort order doesn't really matter. Sort the list any way you want, it doesn't change anything about the fact that "drive it" is disfavoured as long as it is not handled the same way like "eat it" and "wear it".
And, I'd like to add, this is what I consider to be the actual underlying problem here. You can tell other GNOME contributors "openSUSE preselects the most popular option, sorry" and be honest about it, and then it is up to (plural) you to either say "world is cruel, let's be depressed and weep" or "well, then we need to do something about being even more popular". But what am I to tell KDE contributors, current or potentional? "openSUSE values you as much as GNOME contributors, never mind GNOME has this favour nobody else has that puts you at disadvantage, it doesn't mean anything" ? I could try with "openSUSE values options the same, that's why KDE and GNOME are given as completely equal choices", but then how many are going to believe me when it can be seen that no other options are handled the same? No matter which way I try to position it, the message always eventually comes out as "KDE is disfavoured in openSUSE". I really don't know what would be a good way to explain it if the feature request is refused. Even "Novell wants it so" would be acceptable, although not liked, but then the problem is incorrect messaging about openSUSE welcoming all equally and then that again can result in disappointed contributors.
I believe this is better explained in http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2009-08/msg00283.html . I would prefer it if you tried to find a mistake in the description of the actual problem rather than this analogy.
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