The beastie boot menu.

[Chris Pressey]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:24:40 +0100
Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

> At 12:26 AM -0800 2004-11-30, Chris Pressey wrote:
> >                            Highest performance?  Most stable? 
> >  Easiest to use?  Most featureful?  Fewest bugs?
> 
> 	Yes.

OK, then someone in charge should write that down, as part of the
official docs, assuming core agrees.

> >                                        Most accessible?
> 
> 	What do you mean "accessible"?  And by whom?  Do you mean 
> handicapped-friendly?  Do you mean moron-resistant?
> 
> >                                                          Most
> >                                                          conformant
> >  to standards?
> 
> 	Which standards?
> 
> >                 Plays nicest with other OSes?
> 
> 	What do you mean by "nicest"?  Which other OSes?

Maybe all, maybe none - the answers to those questions are all up to
TPTB to decide and make explicit.

> > Largest package system?
> 
> 	That's a side-effect, not a direct goal.

It could quite easily be a goal if it's what the project leaders want.

> [...]
> I would think that the term "power" would be pretty obvious. 

I would disagree; it's certainly open to far more interpretation than,
say, "fastest" would be.  "Powerful" certainly doesn't mean "stable" or
"correct" in the dialect of English that I use - can I assume then that
these two goals would take a backseat to that of raw performance?  (If
yes, write it down; if no, write _that_ down... all I'm saying is,
stating *some* philosophy will put the project in a better position than
just assuming it's obvious and hoping everyone else has made the same
assumptions that they have.)

> [...]
> 	I'm sorry, I just don't see the source of confusion.  I don't
> see the floundering.

Do you follow cvs-src@?

-Chris