KDE RC Authority

[Piotr Szymanski]

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Neil Stevens (4/07/2002 23:22):
> Instead of having constituent groups, why not just have a general election?
> This way it won't be so slanted toward coders.
It should be slanted towards coders, because mostly coders will do what 
kde-central decides on. As for other representatives they are there to 
express the views of those who their represent, it might be that a 
proposition from a maintainer is good, but it would result in doubling 
efforts in translation, then thetranslation representatives would say what is 
wrong with it and the they would search for a solution with the rest of 
kde-central, so that the proposition can be acepted and executed.

> Or, why not just use the existing framework of KDE e.V.?
> http://www.kde.org/kde-ev/
It does not look bad, but I do not like the idea of membership fees, employees 
and so on. My proposition is different, because I do not want to convert KDE 
Project into a company, I just want to propose a good decision making system. 
I do not like the idea of a general assembly though. And infrastucture? I do 
not know anything about that projects infrastructure, their webpage is very 
laconic about the inrastructure, all I found is general asembly and board and 
that idea I do not like, because not everyone know everything, people who 
know sth. about multimedia work in kdemultimedia, those who know about 
networking work in kdenetwork. The kde-central would not rate the proposition 
that would be brought up by package maintainers technically, all they would 
do is decide whether the proposition is conformable to the accepted strategy 
and if the idea was good enough, whether the strategy can be changed...
Having a general assembly would me that over 100 developers discuss things in 
one huge thread and nothing would come out of it. We have sth. like this 
already in kde and it does not work effectively.

> Seems to me that you as a translator can have plenty of influence in KDE.
Well I remember how you treated Thomas in the thread when he was complaining 
about doubling translation efforts, so this was a kind of backing myself up.
But that is not the point.
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