FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

[TK009]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I respectfully disagree sir.