> On Sep 10, 2020, at 2:42 PM, Benedict Elliott Smith <bened...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> As I understand Sankalp's primary (and quite reasonable) argument the last
>> time we discussed this
>
> The more significant cost to the project is distracting contributors focused
> on 4.0. The project is bandwidth constrained right now. Feature development
> doesn't happen in a vacuum, and some of that bandwidth will have to go to
> participating in any new feature development. So, if feature development
> begins in earnest, the 4.0 ship date will slip - by how much, who knows?
>
> Of course, the new features will also get less attention than they should.
> So it's a lose-lose in that respect.
>
> I think if we are to consider this, any ticket or project for 5.0 should be
> subject to a consensus vote before work begins. Work that a contributor -
> focused on the more urgent and less rewarding job of shipping 4.0 - would
> participate in can be deferred. Uncontentious work, or work where all
> relevant contributors are free to participate, can make progress.
I have no opinion on branching, but I think we all know it’s not reasonable to
say what people can and can’t work on in any open source project. PMC members
and committers get an opinion on what goes in the repo, but not what gets
worked on or reviewed by other committers.
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