[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.02.16 16:25:24
>I wonder how many potential contributors have turned away with
>this fundamentalist stance. I don't have any more free spare time
>per week that the 5 that Tobias mentioned. But I've heard of this
>amazing open-source idea where people pool their free time and
>come up with things much greater than any one of them could have
>accomplished. The problem with the model is that if you guard the
>source code with enough belligerent trolls it kind of destroys
>any hope of a community atmosphere and your fruit withers on the
>vine, much like the stagnancy that is CVS.
This is true, but at the same time, most potential contributors aren't good
developers. This means there must be some form of control over what goes into
the "standard" distributed source.
I agree that proposals shouldn't be shot down haphazardly. If the proposals
don't break backwards compatibility or make the existing structure unstable
(this includes bloatware), they should at least be heard. Ideally, in the end,
a summary can be published on the web so future threads don't rehash what's
already been said.
Noel
