[ogb-discuss] please dissolve the Desktop Community

[James Carlson]

Shawn Walker writes:
> My point was that there was never any indication of who the consensus
> was amongst. To say that there is consensus without indicating whom is
> bound to create frustration.

Here's the original claim.

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-November/003018.html

  The right thing to do is roll back the content to the state it was in
  for most of the past 2 years.  I had hoped that reaching consensus
  here about the underlying issue would make that clear, but for reasons
  I don't completely understand that hasn't percolated through yet.
[...]
  If you believe the OGB needs to include something to that effect in
  our official position for you to be comfortable doing that, please let
  us know.

The meaning of "reached consensus here" ("on this mailing list; among
the OGB members") was patently obvious to me.  Speaking of consensus
among the wider community would indeed be nonsense, but that wasn't at
all what was going on.

> So, really, the URL list was nice, but wasn't necessary. I'm well
> aware of the "consensus" of the OGB. Just be careful to qualify your
> statement please.

It was Keith's statement.  And I don't think he was in any manner
wrong.  If anything, disputing it has just reduced the S/N ratio a bit
more rather than clarifying anything ... something I would previously
thought impossible.

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