Yucky update
I got some more info on the yucky stuff. It is clear one can only base his perceptions on the reality being made apparent, and much of the yucky stuff has been background battles. That being said, maybe I have to change my opinion. OTOH, it is clear that background battles are the worst thing which can happen to a community, especially if its sole means of communication is based on email lists. There was a vote recently whether the 'townhall'-type of list for the Apache in-crowd (committers, members, and 'invited experts') should be publicly archived and open for subscription of non-Apachians. I'm still pretty confident that doing stuff in the open helps to create an atmosphere where the community handles 'issues' as an entity, rather than through policies and policy-enforcers. But maybe this veto-vote thing has to move away then and be replaced by a majority vote.

I'll quit rambling about this and get back to work now. On the Ouverture side, we are having a lively discussion on scope and goals. I've been publicly appreciated for my pragmatism and self-confronting critique. Maybe each community needs to go through a catharsis once in a while.
11:45:52 PM    comment []  

Freeroller woes
I got rid of all Freeroller-based newsfeeds from my aggregator, since they kept on being regarded as 'new' by Radio. Not sure whether this is Radio's or Freeroller's fault. Sorry, Andy and Rickard.
1:39:59 PM    comment []  

Yucky Avalon stuff
I've just been reading up on the current troubles of the Avalon community, and all I can say is "yucky stuff". I hope each and every person who participated in this battle, before or behind the frontline, is now able to stand in front of the mirror and feel absolutely cool about himself.

At the risk of being impopular, I sense the same change of management style as with the US gouvernment currently. Many beautiful words are now being spent to explain the reasoning behind some actions, but from what I see, a lot of the people who have been doing the work on a day-to-day basis remain awfully silent. And this is what scares me. For a community based on code instead of politics, we should try to be vocal only as a means of communicating our reasoning, but not to play politics.

Furthermore, I'm not sure whether the silent majority agrees with the vocal minority.

Disclaimer I'm only a clueless lurker on the Avalon list.
1:26:37 PM    comment []