On 5/18/2013 9:20 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > A modest suggestion: > > There are lots of governance models out there. Rather than try to invent > one, choose an open source project (or more than one if you have several > in mind) which best matches your vision for the size, scope, and impact > of our LinuxCNC project and see how its governance model could be applied. > > Two useful resources: > > a web site on open source projects, which includes this page -> > http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/governanceModels > > a book about producing open source software - > http://producingoss.com/en/index.html (I take note of the fact that the > author believes his book is getting stale in the face of 8 years of > progress and is seeking kickstarter funding to update it for a second > edition) > > A concern: > > As a physicist I tend to think in terms of orders of magnitudes so let > me throw out the following quantities (my engineering dad would call > these SWAGs) > > Number of LinuxCNC developers: something on the order of 10**1 > > Number of LinuxCNC discussants (both lists plus forum): something on the > order of 10**2 > > Number of LinuxCNC installations (the ballot on the website): something > on the order of 10**3 > > I hypothesize that making LinuxCNC more attractive to a broader > base---notably but not just the "Maker Movement"---could cause the > number of active LinuxCNC developers to increase by a factor of 10 and > each of the other two numbers to increase by at least a factor of 100. > > Do you believe our current governance and communication models will > stand up to the pressure? > > Regards, > Kent My take is that our governance and communications models should depend on our goals (or to use business speak, our mission).
My goals are quite modest. I'd like something that I can use on my mill, and someday, my lathe. The lathe will probably be outfitted with gang tooling. I don't much are about using the system for commercial production. I do, however, care about complete and elegant solutions. (Although you might not guess that from my quick and dirty implementation of interpreter control statements -- O words -- and named parameters.) [A few things that I'd like to see are: higher order control (jerk limited), unlimited (or limited only by memory) look ahead, a better interactive interface. The first two are for elegance (I have no real need for them), the last for my own use in making prototypes]. I also care about people like Stuart who have used our work product to control machines with five axes. People who are willing to pay their dues always get my respect. I don't really care if other products have twice (or ten times) the rate of growth. I don't view this as a competition. And while it's great to have talented developers like Michael who seem to have almost unlimited time and energy, any developer who is willing to take on a sub-project and carry it to completion has my respect. On the matter of "not having enough time" to do a job, I'll say what I've been saying to the members of a volunteer ambulance corps of which I'm a former chief. We all have the same amount of time -- there are twenty-four hours in a day. How you spend that time is a matter of your priorities. I won't tell anyone how to set their priorities. I suggest, however, that before you take on a job that requires a specific time commitment, you examine your priorities. (Yes, I recognize that priorities change.) In my own case, my LinuxCNC priority has decreased from former years. I have a full time job working for someone else these days. I haven't fired up my milling machine in over a year. Unfortunately, I have a prior commitment (cooking lobster for forty people) the weekend at the end of our get together. I'm contemplating joining those of you who can make it to Wichita perhaps from Tuesday to Friday, though. Regards, Ken > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete > security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and > efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls > from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
