Re: Discussing issues

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:56:02PM -0500, Rich Murphey wrote:
> > I have heard multiple people voice a preference for pursuing
> > implementation rather than standards.
> >
> 
> I want to be sure there's no misunderstanding - I'm not looking for a
> standards-only project.  I'm looking for an umbrella for purposes of
> a) coordination and b) efficiency, but it's an umbrella for free
> software projects and contributors, creating code that eventually gets
> standardized. Not an umbrella for standards committees writing
> standards that eventually get implemented.

   Does this need to be a single organization with a single
government?  While I think XFree86 could serve as code-keeper
and help with implementation issues (provided we have the
expertise), I think putting the responsibility of being "the
umbrella" upon XFree86 would be too taxing of the project.


			Mark.