Hi every one.
I'm sure you all know about the storm about the new code of conduct in freebsd. (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....
You can easily avoid this, by just having an enlighten dictator. 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.
So, trinity should remain a dictatorship. Even if the project got big. I'm assuming the dictator is petersons. And when he leaves, he must appoint a successor. If that ever turned to shit, people would have to decide to fork then. (Roman emperor Caligula once, ordered his men to collect seashells) A common mistake with projects/businesses, is that the founders don't think through about what happens after they are gone.
hugs :P
On 2018/03/11 06:35 AM, wofgdkncxojef@gmail.com wrote:
Hi every one.
I'm sure you all know about the storm about the new code of conduct in freebsd. (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....
You can easily avoid this, by just having an enlighten dictator. 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.
So, trinity should remain a dictatorship. Even if the project got big. I'm assuming the dictator is petersons. And when he leaves, he must appoint a successor. If that ever turned to shit, people would have to decide to fork then. (Roman emperor Caligula once, ordered his men to collect seashells) A common mistake with projects/businesses, is that the founders don't think through about what happens after they are gone.
hugs :P
Tim is the project BDFL, no worries :-) Cheers Michele
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 10:35 PM, wofgdkncxojef@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.
unfortunately this is a myth that a fork will succeed,
In a situation like this, plenty of people from the old project want to leave also.
honestly though... i don't feel that there's anything to be concerned about. the people maintaining trinity are pretty sensible.
That's missleading. This type of decay happen slowly over time. It always start well with the founders, but as people come and go things deteriorate.... The guys that founded freebsd back in the 1993 didn't expect something like this.
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