On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > I recognize some of what we recently experienced on a HDFS matter in what > Milind wrote even if this was not the appropriate forum for it. Odd mention > of "conspiracy theories" aside, for people who may come to this thread > later, perhaps you can recommend an appropriate public Apache community > forum for discussing such concerns?
I'm not exactly sure what "such concerns" are, but I'll guess that you're worried that someone else has plans that conflict with yours yet they're not stating that publicly. Is that right? We cannot ensure that everyone's contributions are equally loved by everyone else. Some people's contributions may sometimes conflict with plans of others. (I have no idea whether that's the case here.) Making a proposal is a good way to inquire about this. Directly accusing one group of implied opposition is probably counter-productive. We try to ensure that every contribution is given a fair discussion in public and that it is weighed on its technical merit alone. If a proposal conflicts with some other not-yet-public plan then it's up to the not-public planners to voluntarily make themselves public and try to reach some compromise. We don't permit vetoes without technical justification, and the benefit of the doubt is generally given to those with code in hand. So there's little benefit in worrying about what folks aren't saying. The best practice is to first start a discussion around a proposal, often incorporating feedback from the discussion into the proposal. Then, barring fundamental objections to the proposal, contribute code that implements it. Ideally that code can be developed in public. It would be poor behavior for someone present at the proposal stage to raise an easily-foreseen fundamental objection in the implementation phase. Does that help? Can we please return to discussing the proposal? Doug
