In short, 1992 will bring a dramatic replay of a familiar scenario: decisions that should be based on technical merit may be confounded by marketing maneuvers.
"In order to avoid all those stupid political issues, you have to basically allow anybody to make changes, and then accept them based on technical merit after the fact, rather than on some pre-approval process," Torvalds told me via e-mail.
But because of how this particular team has been hyped and what it has come to represent -- "every young girl who signed up to play," Brandi Chastain said -- its collective and individual performances must now get critiqued, as if the outcome of a game were based on technical merit.
If the scoring were simply based on technical merit, it would be a very boring event.
If the conflict is about a maintainer not agreeing with your vision..., with specific technical decision, then it is [the maintainer's call]." The release team lacks of power to mandate developers to perform a task, it relies on building consensus based on technical merit and engaging developers to embrace the release process as theirs.
In fact, our "OpenStand" vision is that the right way to build a technical infrastructure for society is through multi-stakeholder technical groups where decisions are made in the public interest and based on technical merit.
While grades for the projects are based solely on "technical merit", the competition will be judged on both "technical merit" and "artistic impression".
While grades for the assignment were based mainly on "technical merit", entries in the competition were judged on technical merit, compelling game play, and originality.
A scoring system based partly on technical merit determined the results of Wellesley crew races until 1964, when the team responded to a challenge by the M.I.T. crew and finally raced to see who could cross the finish line first.
