On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:28:46 -0700 > Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is considerably more that needs to happen with AFS than there >> are currently time and resources available to do it. Standardization >> is one of those things. There are many. The primary reason why any >> specific thing does not get done in AFS, whether that be major new >> functionality work or protocol specification work, is "not enough >> time/resources." > > I don't see how this could possibly be true, regardless of the little > details of actual AFS development. "Not enough time" is a reason why we > don't get _everything_ done, but as to why any one particular "task X" > doesn't get done, the reason is that it is prioritized lower than > everything else. The only way that "Not enough time" would be the reason > for task X not getting completed is if task X could not be done even if > myself, Derrick, Simon, et al were working on nothing but task X full > time. There are no tasks where that is true, that I am aware of. > > I think why I don't like your phrasing of this is that to me, it sounds > like saying "the _only_ way standards work will proceed is if there are > 25 hours in a day, or more people are brought on to the process" (that > is, the only way is if more time/resources are obtained). Whereas my > opinion is that it is more true to say "standards work will proceed if > we work on it instead of working on other things A, B, and C" (that is, > if we reprioritize tasks).
The problem is actually that there is no "we", we are but a loose confederation of folks. > So, from this, what I hear is that the reason standards don't get done > is that standards aren't as important as OpenAFS implementation tasks A, > B, and C. How about "as interesting to the pool of people currently working on things"? -- Derrick _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
