10:36 a.m.
Hello there,
The idea is to make something attractive, positive, and fun: we
state
our goals in a colloquial tone, link to the foundational documents, and
call for contributors. We show what looks like the seeds of a new
umbrella project. It already feels more concrete to me. :-)
I said as much on #gnuassembly, but I think this is an excellent
approach to this tricky social problem. There has been enough drama.
This is not an attack on RMS, nor does it make any terribly ambitious
claims. It gives identity to this faction within GNU that has a shared
vision, shared goals, and a preference for constructive collaboration.
It’d be great to have it published and announced ideally by Thursday.
Sounds good to me.
Here are a few things that I hope we can improve before then:
- “Wondering what this is? Here are the highlights:” sounds odd. It
comes out of nowhere and I’m left wondering where the “highlights” are
derived from. Since all of the items there are backronyms of “GNU”, I
wonder if we could instead state something to the effect of “What GNU
means to us”.
- There is no mention of processes. The term “Governance” seems very
formal, yet other than the social contract and the code of conduct
there is no statement on the means by which the project is governed,
e.g. whether we decide things by consensus (or with the consent of
all/most assembly members). Is this something we should have at this
point?
- Related to that: the “Assembly” links to the mailing list.
Involuntarily I had flashes of gnu-prog-discuss… The preceding
sentence implies that this new home is governed by those who endorse
the social contract (it’s a little more vague than that). Perhaps
this section could be improved to make it clearer who discusses what
on that list and to what end.
- ’some of us even know what “CVS” means’ — while I appreciate this
little nod to GNU infrastructure, I think this sentence fragment
disrupts the flow.
- the “join us now” link is only available as inline text, which makes
it a little hard to find. There is no other prominent link to that
page.
Thank you for getting this started!
--
Ricardo