In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/11/2005
at 09:27 AM, Peter Pfaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>One thing that bothers me for at least 2-3 years, following many
>discussions about the future of the "MVS"-Platform, is the slow
>adoption rate to new technologies for OUR use.
Not all change is progress. We should adopt new technology because it
makes our job easier, not because it is in fashion.
>If we (the IBM-MAIN community, the most valuable source at all)
>would adopt faster to WIKI's (as a knowledgebase) and/or
>SourceForge (sorry to CBT) our loved OS would be much more
>attractive to newbies.
Why? Why wouldn't it, instead, make our jobs more difficult?
>I know, this sounds like a call to revolution. But please take it as
>a recommendation to evolution.
Either way, the Devil is in the details. If you want your call to
action to be taken seriously, it is incumbent on you to provide
details justifying the changes that you want.
>Are'nt (sic) we obliged to do the same?
No. If we are obligated to do the same, how does contributing open
source projects to the CBT tape not qualify as doing the same?
>It is'nt hard to maintain a WIKI or to use CVS or Subversion.
Neither is integrated with existing configuration control mechanisms.
You haven't shown that a change would be productive, or even that it
wouldn't be harmful.
>Why don't we do that?
Because the costs outway the benefits.
>Even IBM went to uci.sourceforge.net for it's Unicode libraries.
Sure, because it made sense for those libraries. IBM didn't do it for
the libraries for which it did not make sense.
>CBT is ok but incompatible with anything else than "MVS"
So? The CBT tape was never intended as a cross-platform distribution
medium. If I developed cross-platform code under MVS I would look for
a different venue. But for work that is strictly MVS, I don't see how
CBT isn't a better choice than sourceforge.
>If we want to survive, WE better should adopt.
Adaption is one things; blindly following trends is quite another. You
might note that many doing open source work are *not* using the
majority operating system on their PC's.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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