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Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> The amount of time spent |
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> debating something over the pretty look and not over technical merits |
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> creates terrible signal-to-noise ratios (where I consider the pretty |
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> debates as noise and the technical merits as signal). |
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I'm not sure that much time on this list is spent debating "pretty look" |
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- unless you're concerned that the EAPI-in-filename objection comes |
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down to "looks." This is really a matter of elegant design and that |
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certainly is a technical consideration. In any case, if the KDE team |
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wanted to make the default color scheme dark gray on black I'd hope the |
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council would step in. The council has overall responsibility for the |
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direction of Gentoo and is not limited to considering only technical |
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matters. |
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I think that half the reason the glep55 debate seems to have gotten so |
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many people angry is that half of the flames amount to "you have no |
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right to voice that opinion" or "your opinion doesn't matter." Maybe |
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that should be true, and maybe it shouldn't be true. However, you |
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aren't going to be making many friends with that approach. |
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Likewise, if 90% of the developers on a project don't think a change |
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should happen, I'm not convinced that it should happen regardless of its |
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merits. The 10% who think they have all the winning technical arguments |
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should try persuading the 90% to agree rather than simply pointing out |
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that they are wrong. It isn't like the average gentoo developer can't |
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follow this stuff... |
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