On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what David Pollak says here: > http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?url=archives/93-In-defense-of-DHH-the-Rails-comminity.html > > I'm happy to discuss this on this list. > > As an incubation mentor I've tried to give advice when it makes sense, > while also staying out of the way. If people want something else, > let's talk about it.
Pfft. Whatever. As my wife would put it, sometimes if you don't get it there's no point explaining it. If all you see about the ASF is red tape, then just consider going somewhere else. It would help if you didn't play rhetorics on a few lines of reports, but who am I to argue on someone else's rants? For the non-David-Pollack out there who might be tempted to buy his load of crap, let me just rebut the most offensive argument he's making: the ASF _is_ strongly meritocratic. In the sense that we will not tolerate any governance model that is not strongly based on meritocracy. That is as much as we can do, and that's our promise to the community. The ASF has no power (or remit) to build a community. All we can do is provide projects with a nice and welcoming environment, with clearly defined rules of engagement and a set of rules that over the years proved effective in being a trustworthy platform for a level playing field. The trust we have earned over the years turns into visibility and boost for projects. The actual community building is however a task for the project itself: the ASF isn't Midas and won't be able to turn an unattractive project into sexy stuff that gathers time and enthusiasm from volunteers. I would still contend that if a project is unable to build a community around Apache, it's got very little chance to succeed at it elsewhere. But, by all means, don't take my word: just go for it, fork and give it a shot. -- Gianugo Rabellino M: +44 779 5364 932 / +39 389 44 26 846 Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com
