On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:43:37AM +0100, Zoran Vasiljevic wrote:

> Look: current core development (list of people in
> ChangeLog from the entire year 2004):

>  4 persons from AOL, 2 of them being very active
>  1 (stubborn) community member
>
> AS is effectively being developed by 2 people: Jim and yourself.

Yep.  Dossy, you've responded to many of the technical questions
raised in this thread, saying that multi-protocol support will go into
AOLserver 4.1.x in some fashion, etc.  That's all excellent.

But so far you've never directly addressed the bigger question: Will
anyone other than you and Jim D. be allowed and encouraged to commit
to the unstable CVS development head for the AOLserver core, or not?
And why or why not, and how?

This is a matter of operational policy, and as project manager, it's
certainly your job to articulate it, and de-facto, since there's no
other respected authority to do so, it's your job to decide it as
well.

I know what I would PREFER to see:  Dump the current de-facto
ivory-tower policy, talk to Zoran, Stephen D., and Vlad, and figure
out whatever is necessary to turn some or all of them into productive
core committers, while satisfying EVERYONE involved, including (if
they care) your AOL management.  However great a job Dossy and Jim
D. can do alone, I'm rather confident that the five of you can do
better - all it should take is a bit of communication - and
leadership.

If you're still thinking about or discussing this and haven't decided
what to do yet, that's fine, just tell us so.  But I think you do owe
the AOLserver community some sort of clear statement on this issue.

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