* jdd
experts are not experts on anything like marketing, for example
There should be a formal way to make sure a decision is made on important subjects in a known way by known people.
A "technical staff" with experts from various domain, including marketing and project, in charge of saying the final "yes" or "no".
A way not to do again some odd decision we suffered from in the past witout even knowing who decided to do so.
This staff could include the board (but not only) and hold an IRC meeting at some important period of the distribution lifetime. Just before RC and feature freeze could be a good moment.
Asking some questions like:
* systemd and inits at still available, what one do we make default for the Gold master? * Gnome 4 is nearly ready, and us are we ready?
you see the point? Like we work now, nobody is responsible (who choosed between kde3 and kde4 as default?) - for the good or the bad
This is becoming a *government/politics* issue. Have we reached the point of "leaership by committee"? At some point, *someone* must be empowered to make rational decisions as the world will wait for no-one and we *will* be left in the lurch. I *trust* those with knowledge to make intelligent decisions about my software platform the same as I trust my doctor/lawyer/financier/... When I find that the trust is not warranted, I *will* make changes. I will say that from the "discussion" here that I feel (I have sufficient lack of expertise to do other than "feel") systemd is the future. us$0.019 -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org