Inappropriate use of private meetings & lists. (reply to).

[Jim Gettys]

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On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:19 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
> >
> > There are top-down decisions being made by a few people that drive the 
> > direction of OLPC. These decisions are not waiting for consensus, and 
> > they are made by a small number of people. I don't believe this is 
> > going to change (at least not in the short term).
> >
> I, personally, do not care who makes decisions, as long as he is smart 
> and makes "good" decisions. The problem is that usually I am not 
> notified of such decisions.
> 
> For example, the move from 32 bit to 16 bit frame buffer just happened 
> silently. One day people debated its merits on this list without 
> reaching any conclusions. Some months later it was 16 bit. Nobody told it.
> 
> A similar thing is that I am trying to get an answer to the question 
> whether the XO image will be moved to LZO compression or not when we 
> will be rebased to F9. The reason is that I am currently tuning the LZO 
> decompression code and want to know whether this effort is moot or not. 
> Most likely this was already decided by somebody, and frankly I am not 
> qualified enough to debate this decision, I just want to know what it is.
> 
> Note that I had to reply all to this message and then delete all 
> recipients and then replace CC devel with TO devel. The reason is that 
> this devel list is not set up that the reply-to would be the devel list, 
> and if I do not delete others then the conversation often slips outside 
> devel. See, even the main mailing list is configured wrong.
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