Dapper delay made official ?

[Paul Sladen]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Jonathan Jesse wrote:

Hello Jonathan,

> I saw the revised dapper schedule go up on the wiki because I subscribed
> to that wiki page.  I thought they were working on improving
> communication?

I'm not sure it's possible to be more transparent. :)  The schedule that
went up was a working draft from *during the meeting* and produced on a
"what if..." basis, which is about being readied and prepared, which ever
way a decision is made.

With Free Software, you get to see the news-before-the-news, to be a part of
it and help shape the direction.  The alternative is possibly to sit around,
thinking about other topics until somebody suddenly lands a completely
out-of-the-blue (unexpected) announcement email on you?  ("Oh, by the way
Fred, you're on the 06:00 plane to South-American tomorrow morning.")

Commercial companies sometimes hit the "who do you tell first?" question;
where they have a legal duty to both their employees and their shareholders
and its not always possible to tell everyone at once.

Perhaps better is the approach we have here, where everyone can speak
at the meetings (or just listen-in if they want to)---and it's great for
journalists wanting to get "that inside story".

I hope you'll continue to be apart of Ubuntu---afterall, posting on this
mailing list is just that!  :)---the openess is, for me, one of the things
that makes Ubuntu great.

	-Paul
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