Building consensus is difficult.

Building consensus is difficult. Even the mildest statement will invite attack, and anyone trying to work with large groups of people has to develop a certain unhealthy stubborness, balanced with constant self-doubt just in case. I can do it, but it’s really not fun and I wish I believed in a better way. I suspect that every project maintainer or coordinator feels that way lots of the time.

No matter how ridiculous the opposite view is, it always upsets me to argue. One way to aleviate this might be to publically state some things which I consider beyond question and which I won’t bother arguing about any more:

  • Building from source is a bad way to get GNOME for everyday use.
  • glade-generated-code is a stupid way to develop software – use libglade.
  • The earth is round.