On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:02, Ben Hyde wrote: > Projects that: fail to > welcome new comers; fail to bring in credible new contributors ... well > they are just stupid. They will ultimately become dysfunctional and > implode.
Question; Should Open Source be Open Participation? I am sure that the upper-tier of ASF would shiver at the thought that hordes of people can gain direct access to the repositories. They/we will dust of the same arguments of why Wiki won't work. But it does. Why? Because *most* people *want* it to work. Can it work on code? _I_ am absolutely certain, but I never expect that the hard-earned ranks of the upper-tier in ASF to willingly relinguish the 'military style rankings' that makes up ASF and most other OSS projects. Future will tell, but I am putting my money on Open Participation Software (OPS) where everyone is welcome to join in, not barriers of entry and "militarism" of promotions. ;o) You heard it here first :o) Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.bali.ac / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
