Emmanuel, I'll admit I haven't done a great job of communicating ... for that I'm very sorry. We'll withdraw the proposal and if we ever run into each other again, I'll buy you dinner while I apologize in person.
Steve On 04/21/2015 09:17 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote: > Le 21/04/15 22:24, Steve Moyer a écrit : >> All, > Hi Steve, >> We've started the process of open-sourcing our SCIM implementation, >> which was originally branched from the Apache Directory eSCIMo project. >> It's diverged so far at this point that it really can't be merged back >> in, but we'd like to contribute it back to the community as a second >> implementation (using a fully-typed Java system versus the mapper that >> eSCIMo provides). > Hmmm. > > I don't really get it. You started from something that was originally > OSS, forked it, diverged largely, without any communication whatsoever > with the existing community, and decided two years later to contribute > it back. I mean, we work in the open, we try to benefit from the existig > community to improve what we do, instead of working behind closed doors, > just because it makes everybody feel like part of the effort. > > Now, you come with something that will require a huge effort from all of > us to cope with, and eventually propose it as a second implementation, > disregarding the existing code. Sounds to me like a cukoo nest > approach... I'm trully sorry, but after the discussion we had 2 years > ago in SF, I must say I'm disapointed. I was expecting some kind of > collaboration. > > That being said, this is not me to decide if this proposal has to be > accepted, or not, and you may have had perfectly good reasons (legal > ones, for instance) to have kept the fork private up to now. > > Now, let's move on. Please tell us more about what you bring. > > Thanks ! > > -- "One longs, in reading your code, to walk on all fours" - Voltaire
