Am Sonntag, den 28.06.2009, 21:35 +0530 schrieb Nirbheek Chauhan: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Roy Bamford<neddyseag...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Oh. Don't talk about 'common sense' GLEP39 does not mention it, so it > > doesn't count ... and its much rarer than you may think. > > > > I would like to make a stand for more usage of common sense and > "wisdom" in interpretation of rules. It more often than not makes for > more sensible and useful decisions.
Well, Gentoo became (or always was) a multi-cultural project and what I see is that common sense really depends on one's cultural background. Therefore I'd say it doesn't hurt to just write something down in case of ambiguity. > > To this end, I advocate the following TED talk: > http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html > > From Donnie's twitter status[1] from a while back, I take it he would > agree as well. > > > Lastly, as a trustee and partly legally responsible for decisions made > > on behalf of Gentoo, I am uneasy with the concept of non developers > > making those decisions. Now reread my 'what if' above with that > > liability in mind. > > > > This is an interesting point that I doubt many here would have thought of. > > > 1. http://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/2345098446 -- Tiziano Müller Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member Areas of responsibility: Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor E-Mail : dev-z...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30
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