2009/12/8 Rafael Schloming <[email protected]> > A number of recent threads have made it clear that we have a fair amount of > unspoken etiquette about how we do things around here, and the fact that it > is unspoken can be confusing to newcomers and old-timers alike. > > Looking at a few other apache project web sites, they often seem to have a > page or two devoted to documenting their project etiquette. I think this > would be a good thing for us to have as well, and I've taken the liberty of > trying to seed this effort with some content. > > I think there are some obvious places where it would make sense to > formalize some of this etiquette into some lightweight process, e.g. having > maintainers files in svn, having a sandbox for new code contributions, etc, > however this text is *not* intended to be a proposal for that sort of thing, > merely an attempt to put into words what I believe most of us consider to be > the status quo wrt the unspoken etiquette of the project. > > Of course the problem with unspoken etiquette is that we might not all have > the same concept of what it actually is, so please let me know if you > disagree with something I've written or you think something important is > missing. > > --Rafael >
All this sounds very sensible to me; and there's nothing I can immediately think of that I would like to add. Having this on a "Getting Involved" section of the website, along, perhaps, with a list of the "Big Ideas" people are currently working on would seem to make a lot of sense... -- Rob
