On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:53:24PM +0100, Nikola Đipanov wrote: > + Inf for writing this Flavio!
Absolutely! I never even knew such things existed in this community. > Only some observations below. [. . .] > > ## Mailing List vs IRC Channel > > > > I get it, our mailing list is freaking busy, keeping up with it is > > hard and time consuming and that leads to lots of IRC discussions. I > > don't think there's anything wrong with that but I believe it's wrong > > to expect *EVERYONE* to be in the IRC channel when those discussions > > happen. > > > > If you are discussing something on IRC that requires the attention of > > most of your project's community, I highly recommend you to use the > > mailing list as oppose to pinging everyone independently and fighting > > with time zones. Using IRC bouncers as a replacement for something > > that should go to the mailing list is absurd. Please, use the mailing > > list and don't be afraid of having a bigger community chiming in in > > your discussion. *THAT'S A GOOD THING* > > > > Changes, specs, APIs, etc. Everything is good for the mailing list. > > We've fought hard to make this community grow, why shouldn't we take > > advantage of it? > > > > I think the above 2 are somewhat intertwined with another trend in the > community I've personally noticed towards the end of the Juno cycle, > that I also strongly believe needs to DIAFF. > > An idea that it is possible to "manage" and open source community using > similar methods that are commonly used for managing subordinates in a > corporate hierarchy. That intention/notion to "let's manage the community like a team just as we do at good old $company" should be absolutely demolished! People who advocate such behavior are using ridiculously outdated brain models and should drop what they're doing immediately and do some introspection. -- /kashyap __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
