Re: Discussing issues

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:32:24PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> David Dawes writes:
>  > 
>  > I'm not opposed to communication and effective dialogue between
>  > related projects that have interdependencies.  Whether you achieve
>  > that by creating some sort of formalised "umbrella", or whether
>  > you just encourage people to get invovled in these related projects,
>  > or whether you use some other mechanism, it just needs to be
>  > workable, with the effectiveness of the dialogue being the only
>  > useful metric.
> 
> There is way too much deliberation on how to start this dialog.
> I would therefore like to restate an idea that has just been 
> brought up by Mike Harris:
> 
> Why don't we turn this list into a forum where different related
> projects can meet and discuss their ideas? In a way it has been
> this from the beginning. We just have to shift from discussing
> *how* to discuss things to actually doing it.
> 
> Maybe this idea is too bold ;-)

Not at all. I'd like to do this too.

I think we all agree we'd like to talk more about technologies and
where people are heading etc. That's a good thing. And we all start
to understand each others goals and targets. Stating these goals
in a single email is a hard thing to do, so discussing what's coming
up in XFree86 5.0 would help you Havoc ? to understand what we're
trying to achieve.

When forum was started I posted a list of what the core team had talked
about as things we may do for XFree86 5.0. By no means is this a fixed
list or guaranteed. It was to open up discussion on what people are 
interested in doing for the next major release.

If you read that Havoc I think it'll give you an idea on where we
think we're heading, but please throw in some ideas on what else you
think needs to happen. Maybe someone with that itch would step forward
and write it, or has already been thinking the same thing.

Roll on discussion of where we're all heading in future features and
we'll all get a better picture of what's happening around us. I'm sure
we'll all come to like each other a lot more if we can be productive
in this type of communication.

Definately let's shift gear.

Alan.