11 Mar
2018
11 Mar
'18
7:16 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:35 PM, <wofgdkncxojef(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi every one.
I'm sure you all know about the storm
about the new code of conduct in freebsd.
yes. insane. they'll learn. it'll be tough, but they'll learn.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11758156&cid=56183977
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11758156&cid=56142132
(you need to ask consent in advance before sending
virtual hugs.... etc)
This is happening, because their governing structure is a committee.
They are making an experiment in politics, with rules and votes and consensus
etc....
voting by majority gets you mob rule.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNGFep6rncY
You can easily avoid this, by just having an enlighten
dictator.
it's not the best long-term solution but is fairly high at the top
when it comes to software libre projects, as actual contributions from
part-time volunteers tend to be minute compared to the overall size of
the project that the full-time lead has to deal with.
A bit like Torvalds with linux. In the Linux project,
there is no
committee and votes and politics. Linus has the final word.
An open source project is not like in real life, if you think the
benevolent dictator is a dick, you just tell him and fork.
unfortunately this is a myth that a fork will succeed, it's amazing
that trinity is going at all, and when i get spare funds i want to
support the project to make damn sure it _does_ keep going. if you're
going to fork a project you'd better have the resources to do it: most
people don't, plain and simple.
trinity is an interesting throwback, it's a testament to the original
code that it's still useful and working well, even now. i have clients
running it. the complaints are down to bugs in firefox or chrome.
honestly though... i don't feel that there's anything to be concerned
about. the people maintaining trinity are pretty sensible.
l.