On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 17:57 +0400, Mikle Krutov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 03:27:27PM +0200, M Rawash wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 12:42 +0200, Domingo Gomez wrote: > > > Hi to everybody, > > > I know that I haven't posted much since I subscribed. > > > But, before deciding wheter to fork or not, who is going to > > > be the boss, the one who makes order from chaos? > > > As far as I understand, nobody, applied, right? > > > Best, > > > Domingo > > > > > > > > I think we should should put it to a vote, are you interested? > > > > M Rawash > My opinion is - start writing the code and you'll be the leader of your own > fork. > People will like it - people will form a team with you, will send patches, > etc. > Vote is useless with no code. Boss with brilliant ideas and no coding skills > is useless too. > I think this is how it works with a lot of startup projects and some offshoot forks (that are often short-lived and completely useless), which have no established community, where the leader was just there when everybody came; however, forks that are spawn from the sudden-death of a project, like what we're trying to establish here, and like a few success stories i personally witnessed ( http://foswiki.org/About/WhyThisFork ), are different, they require a lot of coordinated work, where the process becomes more democratic and the leader doesn't have to be the best coder, maybe just a good leader with some experience (and of course, full awareness of what he's getting himself into).
just my tuppence... M Rawash
