Openmoko on Design
Marek Lindner
marek at openmoko.com
Tue Jul 29 11:22:18 CEST 2008
Hi,
> At the same time we heard comments from a key developer who indicated
> that the decision was made above him by unnamed individuals with whom
> the community has no obvious means of communication, and who apparently
> don't even listen to the reasonable technical arguments of key
> developers.
Openmoko always avoided all kind of formal structures. Thus we don't have such
a thing as "key" or "core" developer - "a" developer would be better.
> This also seemed to reveal something about the internals of
> Openmoko that weren't expected: development decisions are not entirely
> made by the developers, but instead they answer to some people who the
> community cannot readily identify and who the community doesn't know how
> to interact with or if they even can interact with these decision-makers.
May be it revealed that Openmoko itself is diverse as well. That some
developers have different opinions than others.
> It was this incident with the keyboard that made several people believe
> option (2) was not available, and even after Sean's message, I still
> don't believe that we know the answer. So, I'll ask again: does
> Openmoko intend to allow direct code contributions by community members
> to core components of the ASU/FSO frameworks? If so, will such
> community members also have a voice in underlying design decisions that
> guide that/those framework(s)?
if course you can - that is the whole point of Openmoko. The best way is to
implement a solution, offer a package to install and let the people play with
it. If your idea is convincing we will include it.
> Openmoko has to trust those members of the community, who prove themselves
> through actual contributions, to be worthy to give input on larger design
> issues as well.
You got the point !
Marek
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