Alex Karasulu wrote:
Why don't you guys just revive the old sar module? I think Emmanuel
moved it over to the sandbox after a vote since no one was using or
maintaining it.
We need to learn how to work better together instead of going away for
a while and then coming back with stuff to contribute in bulk. We
dropped the bar and made several people committers just to facilitate
this. It's much easier to just keep committing here on relevant
pieces with a slow trickle and using that then having things progress
so much it requires significant time to review and incorporate.
You are absolutely right in that bulk contributions like this are
sub-optimal. There are several reasons for why we dealt with it in the
way I/we (levigo) did, however:
- Reluctance to actually commit code. This may be for whatever reasons -
it being not really production ready or whatever. I felt more
comfortable with bringing the stuff up to a reasonable state within our
own code base and then coming back. Though I can see that the other way
around it would have been more rational: the current DHCP code within
Apache DS, albeit incomplete and non-working, was nevertheless useful
for us as a starting point. Well, I guess this can simply be overcome.
- Practical reasons like the fact that I am not the only one within our
team working on the code. In facht, I have not been working on it for
quite some time, while others did.
- A conflict of interests: wearing the openthinclient.org cap I am
interested in a stable version, so it makes sense to work with one as a
starting point. With the Apache DS it is obvious that the trunk is the
way to go. Keeping both points of view balanced isn't that easy.
Joerg Henne
