Antonio Gallardo skrev:
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Bertrand's idea is excellent. If we explain the new cocoon to the rest
of the development community we will get more hands into it. I know
Daniel and you did it many times on the list an perhaps on other media
and that you might be tired of doing this. But please keep in mind
people needs time to digest new ideas and I hope this time everything
becomes a big success.
People,
I'm in no way tired of explaining cool designs and technical stuff for
interested people, I will never become tired in that. I also understand,
and have a long experience about that people need time to digest new
ideas. And that really inventive stuff, like what we are developing,
takes a lot of time digest. Although I of course could wish that it was
simpler, I have no problems with that the world works in this way.
I also liked Bertrand's idea and I will of course spend a lot of time
explaining and discussing what I know about Cocoon core, blocks fw, etc,
with those interested during the hackaton.
--- o0o ---
What I find tiering are the hostile reactions that some of my more
technical writings seem to provoke. You know, first I spend many, many
evenings and weekends designing and implementing cool stuff. Then I
spend a lot of time trying to describe my thought, designs and
implementations as clear and pedagogical as I'm able to. And then the
main reaction are long discussions about that Cocoon is heading the
wrong way, that we will never deliver, that it boring with long design
documents, etc. This is rather disappointing.
As a result of this I am not writing much on the list anymore, the time
I can spend on Cocoon is limited, so I focus on coding as most of the
endless debates that we have on the list doesn't lead anywhere anyway.
How can Cocoon ever evolve if we don't discuss design and implementation
details?
--- o0o ---
This thread has also been about planning. Planning is most definitively
needed.
One have to take the realities of open source development into account
though. All contributions are voluntary, so you can plan your own time
and contributions. You can also synchronize your planed contributions
with other peoples planed contributions. You can try to make people
enthusiastic about your plans so that they take part in realizing them.
But that's about it. Observe that the key currency is *own
contributions*, that is what counts, and what it is meaningful to plan
and synchronize.
Now, I see again and again that people want or maybe even require that
Cocoon should develop in one or another way, but they also say that they
are not prepared to contribute any work to make it happen. Of course
they really, really wish they had the time, but they havn't.
The tough reality is that if you want something, most of the time you
have to work for it. And if you don't have time, you didn't want it
enough, you gave something else higher priority. IMO discussions about
what other people should contribute are fairly pointless and do more
harm than good.
--- o0o ---
So please people, ask yourself what you want and can take part in
contributing to and make that your focus.
/Daniel
