Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Someone > in a position of power makes a decision that is often more or less > arbitrary and people either decide to live with it or leave. Around that > process, there is inevitably a ton of noise, but it always comes down to > the same thing in the end. > > The difference in a professional workplace is that the people in authority > aren't shy to make decisions, make them much earlier and faster, and > enforce them in a considerably more draconian fashion than Debian does.
Professional is not a synonym of dictatorial. I am glad never to have worked full-time in such a workplace and would like to remind the project that another world is possible. Instead of lusting after such hard-and-heavy rulings, which almost never happen in volunteer projects, we must try to find practical solutions. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
