Hi, Let me offer my 0,02€ too, so to shed some light on how "forMeeGo" happened and why MeeGo (as a whole, LF, community, everyone) should consider themselves lucky that it is already here now that we need it!
>From: [email protected] [mailto:meego-community- >[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Greaves > >On 8/3/2011 11:07 AM, ext Cláudio Sampaio wrote: >> But in the end, developers vote with their >> contributions, so we can molly coddle a thousand legal eagles and not >> advance GNU/Linux one tiny inch forward. David Greaves has done the >> only logical thing when you hit an impasse; fork. > >I certainly wouldn't consider it a fork - as this unfolded I was working >with Niels, Quim and Dawn too. I consider myself as working within the >MeeGo project to find a suitable host for our community services. > >I feel I must emphasise that if anyone thinks that I'm working to fork >or split MeeGo or "do it better elswhere" then I really have >miscommunicated. I remain 100% committed to the MeeGo project and >simply want to resolve our problems in the best way possible. I'm 100% with David on this. Although I've been 'loud' in the past and criticized MeeGo a lot for making it unnecessarily hard for community hardware adaptations I have always pushed for things to happen within MeeGo. It's so easy to say "I'm going to fork it, give it a whole new funky name and everything will suddenly be dandy!". Well it really isn't and trying to build something in parallel to MeeGo would have been not only hard but possibly doomed. Other likely things would be other forks happening "because they forked too and we don't fit with the existing fork for whatever reason". Uncontrolled fragmentation the result. That is why I pushed hard and luckily people like Carsten 'Stskeeps' Munk came along and helped. We started the 'lowering the barriers of entry (...)' task force and bug 13516 [1] was the result. Thanks again. It took the LF 4 1/2 Months of contemplation, but finally they approved our idea under the name 'X for MeeGo'. (2011-06-27) Bug 20531 [2] was filed and as the ground work had already been laid, after only 5 more days formeego.org was born. (2011-07-07) Then last week I was approached by David and after he had explained the situation to me I immediately assured him that of course formeego.org (and .com too) would be available to the community. After all "The domains shall be used to support community hardware adaptations 'for MeeGo' and the respective communities." was what I had stated as the intended use. I think this is the best chance for all of us to continue as one MeeGo, regardless if the domain is meego.com or formeego.org! I'll stop here as David has already put it so well: http://mer-l-in.blogspot.com/2011/08/restructure-meego-by-installments.html If you haven't yet, go read it! Cheers Thomas [1] https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13516 [2] https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20531 PS: sorry for possible mail mangling by my corporate email client. ;) _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
