2009/3/21 Keith Hodges <[email protected]>: > >> I think you have a full right to decide what [not] to include in Pharo. >> Keith mentioned that you making many changes to many different parts >> of system , which supposed to be maintained by original authour(s) or >> currently active team(s), without giving a feedback or credit or >> consulting with them about promoting such changes. >> Okay, i think you're not stepping into other's domain.. it would be rude.. >> But its going to be tricky, when you change the package X (not >> maintained by anyone), from which depends a lot of work, which doing >> in parallel by other team for package Y, which depends on X. >> Here lies the problem, which can be solved by communicating with >> people. Of course it requires the good will of both sides :) >> >> > > Igor, > > I am not understanding your logic. > > You appear to be saying that if package X has got current maintainers, > then it is not rude to make your own version of Package X. And that if > you fork a package that has no maintainer then you will be in trouble. >
no, i meant package X having no maintainers and it should be ok to make fork of it. The trouble begins when another package - Y is maintained, but it depends on X. What you suppose to do with such situation? > I am saying the opposite - that if you fork a package that has got > current maintainers, you > > a) insult the maintainers, > b) you undermine the progress that they may have made, > c) you undermine any efforts thay have made to build a team and > communication around that project. > d) you prevent future progress by the existing team > e) you make extra work for the exisiting team because you dont > communicate with them and they are forced to play catch up to you all > the time > f) you send out the message that volunteering to maintain any part of > the kernel is a hapless task, and will ultimately be a waste of time and > effort. > i agree with you on that.. just read my message more carefully :) > Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
