FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:27:26PM -0400, TK009 wrote:
> William Jon McCann wrote:
>>
>> In this particular case, there is nothing wrong with telling some
>> people either: 
> a) you may have to wait *years* in order to get the optimal experience.
> b) The current release of this product is a fail! Go to this wiki page  
> and follow the instructions to make it work.
>> We simply cannot avoid this if we continue to use a
>> time-based release process.  There will always be cases where we don't
>> finish everything we'd like to.
> But it ok to ship a crappy or not ready product as long as I created it.
>> That is, it cannot
>> if we ever want to recover marketshare and mindshare from other
>> distributions (not to mention other/better OS's),
> "we" are not competing  with other distributions. That is just you  
> lennart and crew.
>
> Here is a clue, making a better product will "recover" your precious  
> market and mind share. Telling people only you know what is best does not.

We're finally reaching a point where dialogue between parties is
becoming more constructive and less vitriolic.  Please don't reduce
the usefulness of the conversation.

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