On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
and I think that is not a fair assesment. Really, if anyone has objections, he/she should bring them up. In absense of those it makes sense to trust the experts, don't you think?
(please stop being condescending, it doesn't suit you).
He is not being condescending, he is being truthful.
No, I don't think so. It doesn't always make sense to leave decision making to the experts. In particular when it comes to controversial or non-trivial decisions, I think it makes sense to ask the experts to deliberate with the community first. Not seek a consensus, just inform people about pros and cons and whys and hows. Like I suggested to Greg KH, developers (and experts) often live in ivory towers, blissfully unaware. This does not, imho, make them qualified to make decisions for the greater good.
I think you will find that all of the openSUSE developers are not "blissfully unaware" and are rather pragmatic people who are trying to do the right thing. And to tell someone who is actually doing the work that what they are doing is wrong and should be debated more, by people who don't do the work at all, is being condescending. Again, trust the people doing the work. If you don't, then there are lots of other distros out there to try out, but again, you are going to have to trust the work that they do, or help do it yourself. That's just the way that open source works. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org