Muli has claimed that I have selfish intentions in preparing this list. Therefore, I'm looking for someone to continue its preparation instead of me. (it does not imply I think Muli's claims are justified)
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 07:49:11PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 12:41:35PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > > > > > http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/israeli-oss.html > > > > > > > > (I'm too lazy to put it on iglu.org.il due to the nasty permissions stuff) > > > > > > > > Any additions are welcome. > > > > > > Orna says, and I completely concur, that only projects with more than > > > one major developer should be included. Smaller projects belong on the > > > developer's homepage, not in any semi official list. > > > > I have two problems with this opinion. One is that the distinction is not > > always clear. For example, I did 99% of the work on Freecell Solver. > > However, its development was affected by many other developers, users and > > contributors. You yourself said that most bazaar-style projects out there > > had one or two developers doing most of the work. And a recent survey of > > SourceForge projects confirmed it and found that the median was 1. > > According to this dogma, we will rule at least half the project. > > > > Secondly, there are very important projects out there with one and exactly > > one developer. I was the only one who touched the FCFS RWLock's code, but > > I think it has an important academic and practical value. > > I replied to you in person. On list I'd just like to say that the list > you made smacks of hubris. Do you really think fcfs rw lock or > freecell solver, or even syscalltrack, are on par with mosix? or php? I think it is a dangerous notion to claim that small-scope projects are invaluable just because they are small. It's like saying: "A country house is not on par with the Empire State Building, so it's practically worthless." It took a lot of effort to create MOSIX or PHP, but it also took a lot of effort to create Freecell Solver or syscalltrack. You can't denounce this effort, and I don't think any list would be complete without all these small projects. Maybe the list is a bit mis-leading in its current form, but you can say it and make a constructive suggestion and I would fix it in the next version. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- > "Hmm.. Cache shrink failed - time to kill something? > Mhwahahhaha! This is the part I really like. Giggle." > -- linux/mm/vmscan.c > http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let's suppose you have a table with 2^n cups..." "Wait a second - is n a natural number?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
