From: "Guillermo Roditi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:01:04 -0400
> How do you define "contribute"? Does it include submitting bug reports
> that do not contain source code?
What I had in mind involved source code, but I did not mean to write
off the work of bug reporters. I definitely think that a well crafted
bug report can in many instances be one of the greatest contributions
a project could receive, but my project deals with source directly.
I agree; I only meant to clarify the scope of your project, and I hope
nobody thought that this implied anything about your attitude toward
other kinds of contributors.
That said, the distinction strikes me as somewhat arbitrary. Steven
Weber points out [1] that one of the powerful features of Open Source is
that it blurs the boundaries between users and developers.
Also, I suspect it narrows your dragnet considerably. I have several
examples of spending time "on the clock" to submit bug reports to OSS
projects, but none of developing code, largely because the code in
question (so far) has been too unfamilar. In one case, I had to apply
patches supplied by the maintainer in order to get the current version
of the app to compile on a legacy server; there was no creative input on
my part, but the process was eerily similar to developing a fix.
But this is mostly just to scratch my "pedant" itch; I doubt you
really want to redesign your project at this stage. ;-}
-- Bob
[1] Steven Weber, "The Success of Open Source", 2004.
Harvard University Press, 312 pages, ISBN 0674012925
http://books.google.com/books?id=ELieXMxR1h4C&output=html
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