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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, antarus wrote: |
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> I think the whole deal is blown out of proportion, mostly because many |
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> people dislike Ciaran, and unfortunately Ciaran dislikes (or distrusts, |
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> may be a better word) many other people (myself and Brian Harring |
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> included). If the aim is to get everyone to work together to make a big |
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> happy spec; I just don't see it happening (the teams really don't get |
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> along well when discussing technical issues). The only potential issue |
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> is that PMS comes out and the aforementioned 'meddlers' make their |
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> statements and it is a situation that is beyond reconcilliation. You've |
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> basically written a PMS that may never get approved just because we will |
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> never agree on a standard anyway (due to specific differences in how we |
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> view a PM working). |
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> |
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> In essence, delaying all the confrontation to the end. Which is cool |
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> with me; tbh ;) |
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If I'm not mistaken, the PMS will be something the Council will |
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eventually agree on and set in some form of soft stone. If this is the |
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case, then all the posturing and complaining in the world won't make |
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much different. The council would be the deciding factor. Of course, |
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we're not blind. We'll see the discussion. However, there comes a |
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point when a discussion is nothing more than bitter conflict between two |
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parties, where each is simply repeating themselves. I've been privy to |
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a few of these, and admittedly, participated in a few. The end goal is |
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to come up with a spec that everyone adheres to. Nothing says the spec |
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cannot be amended. The point is that at some point, we have to agree on |
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*something* or we never move forward. Does it have to be perfect? No. |
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But we should try our best to make it as close to perfect as we can |
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before we try forcing the differing implementations to use it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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