On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Jon Scott Stevens wrote:

| on 1/29/02 12:31 AM, "Endre St�lsvik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > How is it possible that such a small, little, tiny project happens to be
| > at the top level of Jakarta?
| >
| > Ahh.. Jon Stevens.. There we have it.
| >
| > WHY are there so many small, little tiny projects at the top of Jakarta?
| > Ever heard of "grouping", "trees" and things like this? Could be useful..
| >
| > Really weird. Probably can't blame Jon Stevens for all of them, I suppose.
| >
|
| <http://www.advogato.org/article/395.html>
|
| Relevant quotes:
|
| "Those with the most opinions tend to contribute the least code."

;)

|
| "Users believe that "open source" == "change it to do what I want". "

;)

|
| "The person who does [sic] the work gets to decide."

;)

A bit to flame-baitish, yes yes..


But there are two things in that mail:

1) Why not do some grouping of the projects in Jakarta?

  ( 1b) Maybe not all projects in Jakarta are of the identical importance?
I would suppose that the most important project of Jakarta is Tomcat.
After that there is definately a lot to argue about, so why not instead
try to group the projects a bit. I see that some work is done with the
"frontpage", but the "directory" should also have some tune-over.)

2) If a guy that's already within Jakarta decides that he'll make a nice,
thight, _small_ little library, it seems like getting it into Jakarta just
takes a cvs commit. Even top level. While if fantastically cool projects
that are outside of Jakarta wants to get in, it's about impossible.

 (Corollary (?!): Jon Stevens' vote is about 10 times bigger than
everybody elses.)


-- 
Mvh,
Endre


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