Laszlo Papp wrote:
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Laurent Bercot
<[email protected]> wrote:
But when the problem is finding a maintainer with
enough time, expertise and willingness to maintain a project, forking is
definitely not a solution - on the contrary, it would only exacerbate the
problem. You were struggling to find one person, now you must find two.
Not quite, no. What I see is that Denis is the ultimate maintainer and
*no one* else is allowed to commit changes from the contributors.
On the contrary, I have seen a *lot* of bikeshed on this mailing list
about insignificant details. The end results usually were missing
what may seem like insignificant details to you is actually what busybox
is about : providing a very small, nonbloated implementation of the
standard command line utilities. if anything anybody wants gets
merged/implemented, busybox turns into a second GNU coreutils.
features due to completely irrelevant implementation details in my
opinion. I still remember one of my first patches that got more than
100 emails in that thread and the whole thing was about bikeshedding,
yeah, that's what usually happens when certain people are involved in
the discussion...
again IMHO. Apparently, many people have resource for that, but not
actual pragmaticism!
[ snip ]
busybox --list | wc -l
351
Does anyone here really think that one person can maintain 351 applets
alone? I think it should be acceptable for others to stand up and not
definitely. note that these applets are already complete and working.
denys did an excellent job in the past even though he has a dayjob that
likely consumes the biggest part of his time.
to have an exclusive person here responsible for everything. I am sure
that there have been applet authors who would have been happy to give
a helping hand with maintaining their code pieces.
"too many cooks spoil the brew".
my impression is that sw projects with a small number of maintainers
work much better than those with a big number like KDE, where the left
hand doesn't know what the right hand did:
the result is bloat (due to duplication and feature-creep), and bugs
(due to insufficient review, and missing overview over the whole picture).
--JS
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