vruz
10/1/2004 3:08:00 PM
> If nobody else with large scale experience step up to be the "voice of
> criticism and care", I think making decisions there is a bad idea.
Especially being Mr Matz absent from it this year...
Pushing standards for technical excellence is okay, it's great, it's
at the very core of the opensource philosophy.
Pushing standards for the sake of it ignoring experienced people,
ignoring relevant engineering processes: now that sucks, it's
anti-opensource.
Proprietary lock-in, land-grabbing, blocking out "competition", and
defining standards in closed rooms are practices that have NOTHING to
do with an opensource community.
This attempt doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the concept of meritocracy.
It's not only a bad idea, it's a SHAME.
The decision of what's a standard and what's not a standard in Ruby
has always been taken by Mr Yukihiro Matsumoto, and it should be kept
that way.
I recognise no other authority in the Rubysphere.
> Eivind.
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--- vruz