On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:16:58AM -0800, Jim Wilcoxson wrote: > Hi - I read the entire thread mentioned below, and missed any mention of > anyone saying the AS maintainers would not accept FastCGI.
Read the end John's 2005-02-07 post to that thread again. http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message%5fid=263944#265126 > The other thing I guess I'm confused about, is that CGI is implemented > as an AS module. Why can't someone write a FastCGI module, and This is a technical question, and once John investigates further maybe it will out that all the FastCGI work he wants to do is best done entirely in an AOLserver module, without any changes to the core. But he probably can't KNOW that for sure until AFTER he's in the middle of doing the work! And damn, but what if when he's 80% done, it turns out that all his work is useless unless he can get a few small changes made to the AOLserver core? The risk that those changes might well be REFUSED regardless of their actual merit, is a serious risk to anyone like John interested in doing such work. And that is my main point. The harder you make it for people to contribute, the fewer people will bother to even TRY to contribute. In any human group, whether a tribe of African hunter gatherers or an Open Source project, there is some optimal point for how many obstacles you force new candidate members of the tribe to overcome. Too easy, with standards too lax, and you get herds of losers who muck things up, do lousy work, and don't much care because they place little value on their membership and status in the tribe anyway. Too hard, and only the obsessively perseverant bother to even try to jump through all the hoops, and the project eventually dwindles and dies from lack of new blood. I suggest that reaching the upper echelon of "chiefs" or "respected elders" in the AOLserver project - by which I mean those who are allowed and encouraged to hack on the core code - is currently too hard, not too easy. Tone down the obstacles a bit, get a few more smart hackers committing freely to the CVS Head - and I think we will all reap the benefits. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
