* Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> [2013-01-24 17:51]:
El 24/01/13 13:32, Guido Berhoerster escribió:
* Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> [2013-01-24 17:16]:
El 24/01/13 12:51, Ralf Lang escribió:
I think rule-making should happen on the discussion list,
I agree, however this is not the way things were done, nobody voted, someone just put in place a set of rules of dubious value and decided to enforce them.
We had this exact same discussion back in October and it was only you making a drama out of writing a couple of lines of useful changelog entries.
I am not making any drama, I'm telling crytal clear that I disagree with this rules, which were:
a) not subject of any discussion b) not subject of cost-benefit analysis
Changes of policy without discussion happen and that's certainly not OK, e.g. see the recent change of default configuration in systemd breaking every desktop environment. However, in this case we did discuss this including the benefits: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2012-08/msg00669.html And we do even have a formal process for that now: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines_change_process
This set of rules is probably one of the reasons that the number of new developers is so low or non-existent.
See the statistics by Andreas and me on -project from May last year which suggest the exact opposite, that is a growing number of contributions.
That numbers probably do not count people that became frustrated and gave up.
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