From kde-core-devel  Tue May 07 19:34:01 2002
From: Roberto Teixeira <maragato () conectiva ! com>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 19:34:01 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)
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On Monday 06 May 2002 09:10, Piotr Szymanski wrote:
> 2.) It is not the transparency of decisions, but the decision making. We
> should have a clear decision making mehanism and I believe we should have
> structures that would make a decision after a discussion, sth like a KDE
> Decision Comitee or sth. It could consist of representatives of every KDE
> package and several translators, because there are more i18n pkg than app
> pkgs, so we should consider choosing translators' representatvies on
> kde-i18n-doc.

Please let's not do it! In theory a very beautiful thing, very democratic. =
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in the end all it will do is creating enormous delays before any decision c=
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actually be made, since everyone will have to give their say, and then=20
someone will reply and then they'll vote. It will be much like this thread,=
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but multiplied for every single decision.

I much more prefer something like this thread. Whenever something polemic=20
happens, a discussion takes place. In the end, consensus will be reached (o=
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not :) and the issue is closed. A decision comitee will only create similar=
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threads for every issue! And then we'll want yearly election for the comite=
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and then we'll be a lot more politics then anything else (it happens in som=
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other projects I know...)

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