[maemo-community] maemo-community Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi Jonas,

Jonas Hurrelmann wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2008 11:09:51 you wrote:
>>     http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2008-June/033767.html
>>     http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2008-June/033829.html
>>     http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-June/000378.html
>>    
>> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-August/000644.html
>> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2008-June/033797.html
>> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2008-August/000648.html
> 
> Fist, I would not expect that some organisational discussion like this takes 
> place on a developers list (which should be about development).

Back in June, about the time the maemo-community mailing list was
created from maemo2midgard-discussion, that was the best place to get
the most active participants in theh Maemo community.

> With the 
> advent of the community list things have changed for better. Still I am very 
> sure, the number of subscribers was and is *much* lower than the one from the 
> planet.

As was pointed out, the council idea was blogged, discussed in the wiki,
announced on maemo.org, discussed on ITT - all in all, it would be
surprising if someone following maemo would not have heard about it at all.

> Nearly *all* of this posts where made in the last 2-3 weeks where supposedly 
> everything was already "fixed" regarding the process. At least *you* told 
> everyone so all the time, even on the first mail at all about it on the 
> community list [1].

You'll note that I specifically encouraged discussion on this topic when
I took the task on the 12th of August. And in fact, the conditions for
having a vote were changed subject to that discussion. So it's now a
little rich to suggest that everything was "supposedly" fixed.

> The last two blogs are not even aggregated on the planet as it seems.

The point was that this initiative has been seen much farther than just
within the Maemo community - so surely it's reasonable to expect that
everyone within the community was aware of it?


This entire discussion reminds me of a Chinese proverb (there's always
one, isn't there?): "It takes little effort to watch a man carry a load."

Cheers,
Dave.

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