Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Decision Making - can we clear the ideas on the list up a bit?!

[Tom Chance]

> 1) Why are the decisions that are being made about
> what happens next being 
> decided by Jimmy Wales and Richard Stallman? 
> Shouldn't those involved in 
> this upswell have a say as well?

Beats me. I'd like to have as much a say in it as the
idea of a "community project" with a mailing list
might suggest. And I know there are a lot of people
here who would like to keep Gnupedia seperate, even if
RMS says to merge. I suppose its all to do with the
fact that GNU, through RMS, are supporting the whole
project so if we split without his "permission" we'd
lose our mailing lists, our hosts, a good route into
credibility  through the labelling of a GNU project,
and a lot of possible funding. Such is life.

 
> The range of discussions on this list seem to be
> getting into the heart of 
> the matter, i.e. XML schema, before some basics
> tenets of the project have 
> even been solidified.

People have jumped on the "XML bandwagon" rather. It
might just be because I have other ideas of how it
should run that aren't really getting any attention,
but I think we should all step back a little. Rob
Scott and I are working on a properly written
documentation for how our system of servers (with perl
+ mySQL) and moderation would work, so people can get
a fuller idea rather than trawl through lots of
fragmented e-mail threads. It'd be good if some XML
experts/enthusiasts could get together and start
writing up a similar documentation of ideas for their
system, so we could compare the two properly. And of
course if people have other ideas, do a similar
documentation.

The list is just getting terribly confusing with
people going off on tangents from a subject they
regard as being closed and obvious (like the use of
XML), and people aren't stepping back and considering
things more carefully. Just like Hector and Richard
Stallman have said!

Tom Chance

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