On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 19:32 +0530, Rahul wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > Well, apparently some people seem prefer "max. freedom" combined with > > "complex bureaucratic rules", instead of "restricted freedom" with > > "simple rules. > > A combination of max freedom and complex bureaucratic rules seems rather > self contradictory. It only appears so: When you try to write up "max. freedom" into "rules", you end up in long series of precedences and exceptions, i.e. in a complex "law" system. > From my experience, the former rule doesn't work in > > community projects such as Fedora. Unfortunately, there seems to be > > pretty large groups of people who don't share this opinion. > > Well a community doesnt mean that people will obey whatever others tell > them. It just means that they will tend listen esp to people who do > similar work and very well might decide thats not the best way. Yes. But ... "community" also implies to be able to "compromise". Such is everyday life - Even if you'd prefer to run around naked, conventions are not to do so in most parts of the world. In Fedora, however, you can set up whatever %buildroot, CFLAGS and %release-tags, causing arbitrary side-effects on user systems. > If > someone's choice doesnt match with the rest of the people doing the > work, we just have to get along. No, if something doesn't suffice, it's a bug. We would have to change the "guidelines"/"conventions", then. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
