Politics. Again. Arrgh

August 22, 2007 xkeyboard-config 14 Comments

There are not many technical challenges in xkeyboard-config maintenance process these days. The worst part of that project is politics. Now, it is about Tibetian layouts. Which ISO 3166 country code should it go under?

The worst part of it is that even if tomorrow I totally redesign the structure and make it language-based – things would not change, I’m afraid (except that in addition I’d get a lot of excitement from people disgusted by breaking compatibility).

Hall of shame anywhere?

August 21, 2007 General 8 Comments

If there would be a place where OSS folks could register most shameful things about our development process, that bug would be the first I submit. Shame on you, Firefox people! 6.5 years for a bug with that level of visibility.