2009/6/28 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Christopher Stone wrote: >> >>> >>> Whatever desktop RH employees are paid to work on to satisfy their >>> biggest RHEL customers needs. Or what they *think* their biggest RHEL >>> customers want. >>> >>> I think the question you need to ask is why they must force this onto >>> the Fedora *community* OS when the community is clearly objecting to >>> it. >> >> >> 'the community' is an awfully flexibly concept. >> >> I think we have a handful of vocal opponents. >> >> luckily we don't have to implement every whim that the majority or a vocal >> group yells about. >> >> we are ( at best) a representative democracy. The representatives (on fesco) >> had an idea suggested to them. They voted. The idea was rejected. >> >> Now, instead of accepting that this how the system works we've spent nearly >> 3 days arguing about a decision which is DONE. >> >> I'm glad we've made such productive use of the system we set up. >> >> If someone believes fesco made a bad decision then you are welcome to take >> it to the board. >> >> The discussion here is completely unhelpful and never going to produce >> results that ANY group wants. >> > > I agree that the voting was democratic and a decision was made by the > votes of the majority in FESCo. > > However I do not agree that the discussion here is completely > unhelpful. It shows some of us directly the bad decision(s) we made > when we cast our votes in FESCo elections, so that we don't make the > same mistake(s) again. I, for one, will be more careful to give my > vote to those who are capable of performing (at least basic) reasoning > and who are constructive in resolving conflicts. It really doesn't > matter for me that much which direction they take, whether they are > thinking my way or not. I just want to see my representatives doing > their homework. Sorry for the full quote, but +100 -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list