IBM-MAIN is fine -- wonderful, even -- but for the *specific* audience I have in mind there should be more dissemination. If you'd like to double post (IBM-MAIN and the Blog), wonderful. If you'd only like to reply on IBM-MAIN, your choice, but please don't complain later if a particular open source project leader or team member never sees your comment or request.
"Consider the users," folks, that's all. This isn't an IBM-MAIN bashing exercise. I have nothing to bash. It's just a simple observation that, for this one *particular* topic, there's a (big) world outside IBM-MAIN -- that hundreds of thousands of developers (if not millions) who might care about your thoughts don't read IBM-MAIN (sadly) yet just might stumble into a public Web site. You are certainly free to ignore my recommendation to communicate your thoughts in the manner suggested (in addition to IBM-MAIN). I'm surprised anyone thinks this is a radical notion. Several people already commented on how existing open source for z/OS wasn't working well because, in short, it wasn't lined up with the way the open source community works. I agree with that observation. But in addition, posting (only) to IBM-MAIN is not how most open source project communities work. Sorry about that, but that's just reality. That's not to say that a blog is perfect. (Far from it!) Kirk at Dovetailed posted a link at The Mainframe Blog to http://oss4zos.org which is a Wiki that Dovetailed set up to explore bringing more open source software to z/OS. (And Dovetailed is a notable ongoing champion of open source on z/OS, which I recognized in the original blog post. They've already done some fantastic work.) I happen to think a "master" community Wiki is exactly the right approach to focus community efforts, so I would like to see things head in that direction. Which means I probably owe Kirk an e-mail now. :-) I'm also surprised that nobody on the blog has yet nominated some of my favorite open source. I'm deliberately not naming my favorites because I don't want to bias even an unscientific survey. But let's just say I'm still surprised. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
