Emmanuel,
Your criticism is fair, but I promise what we were doing wasn't intended
to be done in the dark, it was us responding to a real problem like our
hair was on fire. The urgency made us less inclusive that we would
like. In future we will endeavor to be more collaborative.
If Steve has dinner, I'll get the drinks.
Shawn
On 4/21/15 9:17 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 !
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Shawn Eion Smith
Director of Software Engineering
AIS/ITS
Penn State University
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