Those evaluating re-orgs should revisit Christopher Alexander's "Pattern Language", the inspiration for Gabriel's "Patterns of Software" and OO "design patterns":
>From >http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/patternsframegreen.htm?/leveltwo/../apl/twopanelnlb.htm > : --- "The language begins with patterns that define towns and communities. These patterns can never be designed or built in one fell swoop - but patient piecemeal growth, designed in such a way that every individual act is always helping to create or generate these larger global patterns, will, slowly and surely, over the years, make a community that has these global patterns in it." --- Social space is not a bug. In the long-term, social identity is polymorphic with respect to semantic identity. Flip through a few centuries of history to find supporting evidence. Consider Apache's external identity, relative to all other open-source projects. Which is more stable: semantic or social identity? An internal re-org may reduce semantic learning (for newbies or external groups) at the expense of mutilating social boundaries. Or not. I don't have enough history in Apache to know the answer. But social space matters. SNA reading: http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000006.php Rich -- http://javaindex.org | I'm aware of that... what does that have to do with the message I | forwarded or the proposed reorganization which makes all jakarta | projects top level projects and phases jakarta out (basically)... | -Andy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:general-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:general-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
