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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Social Contract clean-up
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 22:14:56
Message-Id: CAPDOV483X635SbRu0WkEOtBOvxDfGqivER7xj3uu0=2-NgztGw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Social Contract clean-up by Chris Reffett
1 On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Chris Reffett <creffett@g.o> wrote:
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3 >
4 > You've completely misrepresented Rich's position here. He was saying that
5 > he isn't aware of software organizations which give their users a direct
6 > and formal part of the decision-making process (that is, a vote), and you
7 > turned that around and accused him of saying that software organizations
8 > don't solicit user feedback. Those are two completely separate things --
9 > user feedback drives software development, certainly, but that's not the
10 > same as giving users a direct vote on the development process. Users can
11 > submit all the feedback they want, and it's obviously beneficial to listen
12 > to them, but in the end, it's the company(/organization/whatever) that
13 > decides what to work on.
14 >
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16 You clearly haven't read my proposal, which does not involve giving users
17 direct involvement in the decision-making process. You and Rich need to
18 actually read my proposal.
19
20 -Daniel