On 20/05/16 11:22, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote: > On 16-05-20 05:44 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:13:37AM -0400, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote: >>> On 16-05-20 04:08 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >>>>> >>>> the whole point of my side sentence was to give a hint that maybe my >>>> impressions and suggestions are not entirely unfounded or discardable. >>>> it's up to the reader to check my "creds" if they don't take my word. >>> >>> The problem is that you were using "big openly governed communities" to >>> suggest that you had experience in how successful openly governed >>> projects work. If that's not actually the case, then there is no point >>> to saying what you said, other than to try and *sound* like you know >>> something you don't. >>> >> how exactly is that not covered by what i just said? > > "this didn't imply anything in particular about how these communities are > run, or that lede should copy their modus opandi." > > You seem not to have meant this sentence the way I too it, which is as > turning around and saying KDE and/or Qt may or may not be open > communities, and that it was irrelevant whether they were or not. > > My point is that the only relevance to you saying you participate in > "*big* openly governed communities" is to imply that you know what a > successful openly governed community looks like. > > IF that is what you are saying then it is entirely relevant to look at > those communities to see what, if anything, from them applies. > > IF that is not what you are saying then that sentence is just puffery. > > I'm not saying someone has to be a member of such a community to have an > opinion, but you're implying that your opinion should be given weight > *because of* your participation in such a community, which is why > examining the claim is relevant, in addition to looking at the > communities and seeing what can be learned from them. > > The issue I have is not with the notion of transparency, but that that > you imply that your particular view isn't just an opinion but based on > experience, but then you turn around and say it's irrelevant whether the > communities are open or not. > > You're not making sense in this respect.
Come on Daniel, give him a break. bruno _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
