Great way of phrasing it, Patrick. I agree. This community member thinks that the period around releases would be best spent concentrating on getting the release out the door, and the period immediately following releases is the best time to concentrate on new features, refactoring, and general code base cleanup.
And Thomas, if there's ever a bug you find but you don't feel enabled in whatever way to fix, feel free to ping me directly and I'm happy to help you get started. C -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Hunt [mailto:ph...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 1:32 PM To: dev@zookeeper.apache.org Cc: tho...@koch.ro; Benjamin Reed Subject: Re: cleanup and subjective patches On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Fournier, Camille F. <camille.fourn...@gs.com> wrote: > Thomas, we all agree that you have done useful work. But right now it seems > that you are more concerned with the aesthetics of the code base than the > correctness of it. You are capable of identifying potential bugs. Are you > capable of doing the work to provably identify them (by writing tests) and > fix them? Thomas has found some bugs - he's reported a few against multi support for example. Perhaps he didn't feel enabled to work towards addressing those. Camille your point is a good one - the community is saying "we are interested in addressing X", while Thomas has been addressing Y. If he is interested to work on X I suspect he'll find broad support, if he is only interested in Y I suspect it will continue to be an uphill effort. My own opinion only, but I believe once X was addressed I'm pretty sure people would be more open to doing this other work. Q: Are we as a community clearly defining the work we are interested in taking on in the near future? Patrick
