Nino Novak wrote:
It does not need to change its character as that is one of its main strengths. It just needs more thinking heads, brainstorming and better coordination.For how long will Care2x continue to be a "one-man-band" project?
The problem with such open source projects are the missing people who will engage and take responsibility and put in a whole bunch of work. As long as one man puts in the whole work, the project will not change its character.
Why does all code need to pass by a single person?
Just imagine a web server with only one server, no load balancers, no server farm, for how long do you think that the served site can continue to grow.
Right now Care2x is much like a lobster has reached the maximum size it can reach without changing its shell (here he goes again with the lobster example!).
(I'm speaking of *doing* the work not of talking about it.)
And what do you think that happens when "the missing people" appear and start to do the work instead of talking about it?
Two things may happen:
1. either they please the team leader and all goes well,
2. or they don't and... they don't!
When was the last time that an idea that did not please the team leader got submitted to peer review by the other team members?
Most of the time Elpidio were right and did the right thing, but one must always remember the Peter principle and be ready to avoid that situation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle).
It is just that having a good idea and beautifully coding it, is not quite the same as coordinating a fast growing open source project.
The most successful projects have shown that a few heads think better than a single one. Not even Linus Torvalds is the man in charge of the Linux project anymore. Of course he still have the most qualified word over new ideas or radical changes, but somewhere in time a larger team took over the more day-to-day subjects.
Well, against all winds we now have ADOdb, Outsourced templating, PostgreSQL, Debian packaging, Documentation ... but no SQL Ledger, nor Compiere not even a more developer team friendly Care2x site, but...
Who knows what the future will bring to us?
Best regards,
J. Antas
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