I would like to humbly quote from someone who once made a very passionate argument for diversity, openness, and knowing how to embrace different ideas from the contributor and user community in a project:
> This is a critical juncture for the leadership of Gnome. I’ll state > plainly that I feel the long tail of good-hearted contributors to > Gnome and Gnome applications are being let down by a decision-making > process that has let competitive dynamics diminish the scope of Gnome > itself. Ideas that are not generated “at the core” have to fight > incredibly and unnecessarily hard to get oxygen. Ask the Zeitgeist > team. Federico is a hero, but getting room for ideas to be explored > should not feel like a frontal assault on a machine gun post. > > This is no way to lead a project. This is a recipe for a project that > loses great people to environments that are more open to different > ways of seeing the world. Elementary. Unity. > > Embracing those other ideas and allowing them to compete happily and > healthily is the only way to keep the innovation they bring inside > your brand. Otherwise, you’re doomed to watching them innovate and > then having to “relayout” your own efforts to keep up, badmouthing > them in the process. -- Mark Shuttleworth, 2011-03-10, http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/654 It is a shame that the same thoughts are not applied to Unity itself. It would certainly be nice to see ideas not generated at the [Unity] core not being shot down like soldiers charging against a machine gun post. It would have been nice to see something positive come out of this discussion, which was clearly started with a positive intent and with the goal of improving the overall product and experience for all concerned. Just because there exist hostile and self-entitled people who flame and tear down everything without cause, that does not mean that everyone with a different idea is like that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882274 Title: Community engagement is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/882274/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
