From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from starfish.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.166]) by linuxtogo.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UcIIN-0005eB-TT for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 18:41:51 +0200 Received: (qmail 3896 invoked by uid 1003); 14 May 2013 16:23:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.122?) (philip@opensdr.com@71.171.30.249) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 14 May 2013 16:23:35 -0000 Message-ID: <51926506.5070302@balister.org> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:23:34 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <518A6B25.5000108@r-finger.com> <1368026618.27116.52.camel@ted> <518A7B37.8050308@r-finger.com> <1368176725.11129.9.camel@ted> <518CD26F.3090901@r-finger.com> <1368185566.11129.28.camel@ted> <518D22CC.1040002@r-finger.com> <1368206371.11129.46.camel@ted> <1368224314.11129.65.camel@ted> <1368308951.11129.108.camel@ted> In-Reply-To: <1368308951.11129.108.camel@ted> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Cc: Otavio Salvador , about the oe-core layer Subject: Re: proposal to move cogl, clutter and related recipes from oe-core to dedicated meta-clutter layer X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:41:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/11/2013 05:49 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > > I will however raise the point that a lot of people currently have a > tendency to "hide behind" me in discussions. They see me reply and > assume that since I've said something, that is it and they can keep > quiet. I want to be clear this isn't going to work as on this and some > other topics, it looks like I'm a lone voice. If people do believe in a > particular issue, they do need to stand up and add weight to an argument > themselves. I'd like to emphasize this point. Sometimes, Richard seems to be all alone defending decisions that are made. If he is supporting your position, support him publicly. Otherwise, there is a perception in the community that Richard is acting alone. Also, getting a variety of viewpoints out really helps technical discussion. Sometimes it is the little details in individual use cases that become really important. Philip