Blimey! Rod makes some GREAT points here - this email should probably be a standard reference document for OSS projects. When I got to the bottom & read his credentials they seemed entirely congruent with his insights.
I just want to add one little thing, and that's DON'T OVERLOOK THE DETAILS... as Rod has been thorough in his post, so should you be thorough if trying to foster an OSS project. Sure, looking after all the little details should ensure that the bigger picture holds together, too, but if everything else is going through a bad patch, or someone is having a bad day, these little things can be the last straw. On 11 Oct 2008, at 06:48, Rod Whitby wrote: > ... Never let an external developer be > inconvenienced because some mailing list is sending duplicate > messages, > ... Openmoko has been told about this COUNTLESS times, and nothing seems to get done about it. Has anyone actually tried fixing the mailing list software / server? Some days it just really pisses me off, reading through the mailing list and having to click "delete" all the time, because I've seen that message 3 times already. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
