On 05/07/2010 08:48 AM, Matěj Cepl wrote: > Although I don't agree with many of them in a > lot of places, I strongly support Kevin's, Ralf's and others position > that the current development is very harmful to the development of > Fedora and I would love them to stay and defend this still nice project > we all work on. Here's the rub, though: Kevin argues for aggressive development and empowering the package maintainers to push out changes, even if it resulted in temporary regressions. Ralf, on the other hand, reminds us about the need for quality control, process and stability. They can't both be right---but the entire project is better off for them voicing their opinions. There's a lot of research in social psychology suggesting that large groups engaged in transparent and open discussion make better decisions, statistically speaking, so a broad discussion exploring the entire spectrum of opinions is exactly what we need. We just can't let it become personal and acrimonious. This is an obligation for everyone to take the 'extreme' voices at face value: assume good faith, which, by the way, is a great life principle in most circumstances. It is also an obligation on those who take an unpopular view: voice it to the best of your ability but don't take it personally if your argument doesn't take the day. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
