Two visions for the future of sourceware.org

Posted Sep 22, 2022 13:37 UTC (Thu) by kpfleming (subscriber, #23250)
In reply to: Two visions for the future of sourceware.org by jezuch
Parent article: Two visions for the future of sourceware.org

I am saddened by the way that this was 'announced' to the public. I was involved in conversations about this initiative at my former job much longer than a year ago, and at the time at least it was being led by people who appeared to have only the best of intentions.

Two visions for the future of sourceware.org

Posted Sep 22, 2022 14:04 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

It comes over that the problem started with the agenda for the talk. What the talk was supposed to be about, and what the presenter thought the talk was supposed to be about, were two completely different things.

When things are screwed up that early in the proceedings, it's rather difficult to clean up the mess.

Thus giving fuel to the conspiracy theorists. It sounds like this discussion has been going on for a while, but I remember a similar situation not that long ago when the purists were baying "why didn't you tell us earlier", and when the protagonists said "we didn't tell you earlier because there was nothing to tell you" the purists' response was "that's no excuse!".

I don't know, but if this meeting was MEANT to be "we've been discussing and we'd like to present our ideas" I think they were on a hiding to nothing. Not only did they completely mess up the presentation, but the mob are usually only too keen to complain about "fait accompli" when the presenters really do want to discuss ...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Sounds a bit like it ...

Cheers,
Wol