"The Pharo community is quite small" Yes, and that is a major issue. Both for feature-completeness in a timely fashion, and also for commercial uptake of use of Pharo.
Saying that it's small, so it's okay to make it difficult for people to join is... self-fulfilling. On 8 December 2015 at 07:35, Peter Uhnak <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/07, webwarrior wrote: >> It would be logical to make contribution to an open source project easy, >> right? >> Well, in bigger projects some burocracy is inevitable, but usually has some >> valid reasons behind it. >> >> When I made some commits to Spec (while it was on github), it was as easy as >> fork->commit->create pull request. >> In Pharo, it's already more complicated: you have to register yourself in >> SmalltalkHub, in fogbugz, in mailing lists. Slices system is also not very >> intuitive. Then CI system spits out some completely unrelated errors. >> >> But OK, I understand that Pharo is unlike > > Not every project lives in GitHub. > For Ruby, Mozilla, Chromium, Python, PHP, ... you have to register to > their bug tracker. After all, these projects predate both GitHub AND > git. > >> Then people began asking me of my real name - which is already wierd - why >> would they need it? > > The Pharo community is quite small and many people know each other > personally (have met on Pharo Days, ESUG, are coworkers, ...). So > working with someone who goes well out of his way to remain anonymous may be > uncomfortable for some. Not to mention that such behavior may seem > strange for OSS, but that's your call. > >> >> And then someone suggested that I must sign license agreement (which is also >> wierd - MIT license doesn't demand anything like that). > > The MIT may not demand something like that, however signing License > Agreement is also not completely unheard of, see for example > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement#Users > > This includes names like Python, Apache, jQuery, Django, ... not exactly > small fishes. > > >> I looked at that agreeement. It requires you to provide name, address (???), >> sgin it and send it via snail mail (WTF???). > > See above. Also note that copyright in many countries recognized > pseudonyms as valid authors. (I am not familiar with French law, but I will > assume it is harmonized across EU) > Of course in case of a dispute you would need to be able to prove that > you are the pseudonym (otherwise you yourself would loose the rights). > > So considering your position (revealing your real name would undermine > all the work you've put into protecting it), going with a pseudonym if > you are indeed willing to contribute may be the best course of action. > >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.world.st/License-agreement-are-you-kidding-me-tp4865853.html >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > -- > Peter >
