"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg@gmail.com) said:
On 09/19/2013 03:26 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
If those are the goals, then setting up, in essence, a fork without discussing with those working on GNOME currently strikes me as an awfully passive-agressive (and unlikely to succeed) way to accomplish those goals, and so I'd ask why it should be done that way.
Because the desktop community is not and never has been "welcoming" to community.
If you think they have been then I must say many of them have an odd way of showing it.
Well, that's why I asked. If you're trying to fork the community because you don't like how it's currently operating or the Board decisions that came to cause it to be labelled this way, and say "it should have have been done [this way] from the start", then say's why you're doing it. Don't hide behind "oh I want to build an upstream thing with btrfs and XYZ", if your goal is "I want the spin with GNOME to operate more like other SIGs in a more public manner, and I want it demoted from the 'desktop' branding." (which is what I'm reading here.)
If you think asking what the motiviation is and questioning whether the proposed idea is the best way to do it is a witch hunt... well, can't help much there.
Bill