2010/6/10 Trifle Menot
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:20:48 -0500, Alberto Passalacqua That's a cop-out. Priorities change. You can never stop talking about priorities if you expect to attract new users. New users have not heard the old discussions. If you can't tolerate new users who have different ideas, how do you expect the project to grow?
New users should join, observe for a while, try to understand how things work in the community, maybe try to understand if they can help in some way, and then, if they believe it's the case, suggest changes. It's not that you drop in and suggest "let's change everything". You don't have the metrics to evaluate the situation, you do not know the goals of the project, the ideas of who is working on it, and, as a consequence, you are unable to judge. Cooperating to a project is an exchange: you give something, you get something back. To do that however, you should start accepting how things are, and work on them. What you did is not even close to this, and that's why you're having negative reactions.
I think you want to stay in a comfort zone, without any pesky new users disturbing your little clique.
You wrote this many times. It shows you do not know much about the openSUSE community, because there is a variety of people, with very different ideas and point of views on many things. If there is something that works in openSUSE is the comparison of ideas, sometime even too active, with some recent example before the release of openSUSE 11.2. As a suggestion, you had a potentially valid point on independence, even if we give different meaning to what it should be in the case of openSUSE. However, your valid point turned invalid due to what you said and how you said it. If you really want to help, you should first know the community and the project more, because nobody will accept critics from someone that has no idea of what is going on. It won't happen here in openSUSE, it won't happen anywhere else, if who takes decisions really cares about what has to be done. A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org