On May 3, 8:59 pm, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, for as quaintly egalitarian as your "no authority" clause is, it > doesn't fly in the real world. Even if "developers aren't morons," > that doesn't mean that you won't get n00bs who only think they know > what they're doing, or people who's opinions differ from yours. > > And you plan to handle this by branching? What does that leave you > with? Subtilely different versions of the same code, which fall into > a state of atrophy over time as they diverge from the core codebase > and from each other, and as developers lose interest, which tends to > happen on smaller projects. > > If you really think you can do this, hey, more power to you, but so > far this plan doesn't even sound good in theory.
I think, we can't conclude the future at this point of time; you may be right or wrong with your opinion on the openness of the project. But, I'm quite positive about the power of openness. Fascists believe in authority as they want to rule over others, which may not happen here because of the openness. Also, newbies are great contributors (for instance, I have removed bunch of spams form Rails wiki when I was learning Rails). Conflicts are necessary evil (if everyone believes in a same programming language and framework, what is the need for others) and may occur only when there is no communication. People may many times want credit--which they can do through Wiki if they want. Let's see what happens. But, I'm extremely positive. -- <?php echo 'Just another PHP saint'; ?> Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com Blog: http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
