good thought, good ideas - and...

[Klas Kalass]

Am Samstag, 20. April 2002 14:57 schrieb Raffaele Sandrini:
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 14:19, Klas Kalass wrote:
> > <proposal of voting system>
> > If we would introduce a voting system, whose vote counts how much? Who is
> > allowed to vote? If we'd say everybody with CVS access then how fair is
> > it that 20 not so active developers (Myself, ...) have more weight than
> > the 5 most active developers (Waldo, David, Dirk,...)? I don't think that
> > this would be fair and it would certainly frustrate the active ones, if
> > they feel like being dictated by some not so active people.
> > So the way it is done now seems to work, at least it does not scare the
> > most important people away.
>
> Who would be allowed?
> Everyone who is affected by the decision.

That would be ALL KDE users in the case of which applications to ship with 
KDE. Or if you  say "only the ones who wrote the apps": that will not lead to 
a good decicion, because they will certainly like "include all of them" 
better than "not include mine". It is just not practical.


>
> Scare developpers away?
> Hmm. If someone can't accept the others (majority). Then he should think of
> doing an ego project.
>
> Looking at David, Waldo, Dirk, coolo ... ... i have no fear at all. They
> manage projects with tons of devloppers in it.  The problem is not there
> and its also not about special people.
> It turns all about how should this whole thing go forward. In wich
> direction.
i was not suggesting that they personally would be offended, but if the ones 
who do the work would constantly be outnumbered I could understand anybody 
who stops doing the work.

>
> As u can see. There are lots of Systems outside wich can handle things.
> Lots of them are worse. I think that democratic rules are the lessest worse
> one.
KDE works very well and it is not democratic to be honest. Why should we 
change it? I am not sure a democratic system would work for KDE because you 
just cannot force anyone to do anything (except if you are the one who pays 
someone to code for KDE). KDE is not something administrative where democracy 
fits, it is more like a "company" (I know it is not a company, but we do 
produce something, don't we?). And nobody would take on a job in real life 
that is very tough and not paid for properly only because everybody else 
voted for him to do it.

Klas