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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 07:06:36AM -0400, Mark Mielke wrote: > Does the community vote to adhere to Rule 1 and enforce the ruling, > What do you think? The community can vote all it frigging likes. What matters is who contributes code, and whose thoughts influence those who contribute code. Anyone is free to have an opinion. Don't get me wrong on that. But the conversion of opinions to actions determines what happens. I've seen someone *complain* that perl5-porters is a meritocracy, because that means that they're ignored. (Forget whom, and it was somewhere on IR) (Ignore for the moment whether it is or isn't actually functioning as a meritocracy). Which struck me as naive on the part of the complainer, because the implicit in the complaint was a rejection of "he who pays the piper calls the tune" The community can do what the hell it likes. But if it doesn't cause people to 1: answer bug reports about the perl core code 2: locate the causes of bugs in the perl code 3: fix those bugs 4: contribute improvements to the perl core code then the community, or those parts of it uninvolved in the above is irrelevant here. "cause" can be contribute time, contribute code, contribute funding to any entity capable of converting money into the previous two. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next