On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Markus Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny story: as the number of developers working on Puppet and related > projects at PuppetLabs has increased, the average distance between them has > dropped geometrically*, to the point that if we want to discuss something > we're working on with someone, we can (in many cases literally) reach out > and tap a fellow developer on the shoulder. This is great for us but it has > had an unfortunate unintended consequence: we've been doing more and more > face-to-face discussions and less and less on this list. > > Oops. > > This wasn't intentional and (though it seems blindingly obvious in > hindsight) wasn't expected either. It was, as one five year old put it, a > blundersight. > > So we're going to try something we hope will fix things; office chat is > still going to go on as normal -- we'll spare you our debates about whether > we should try having lunch at the place with the cult videos on all the TVs > again or who's going to show the new developer the ropes -- but if anyone > starts to have a substantive discussion about Puppet & friends we'll cut > them off and tell them to tell it to the list.
++ Brilliant It was starting to feel like this list was where decisions were announced, rather than where they were hashed out. > > That means that when we're kicking around ideas you'll get to see them and > put in your two cents worth on equal footing with the developers in the > office (since we really do want your input). It also means that you'll get > to see some ideas that never go anywhere, and crazy things that are > (mercifully) shot down in their first few hours. But then you'll also get > to see the direction of our thinking long before some of it results in a > line of code, and help us shape it before anything is settled. > > Hopefully, it'll be just like the old days. > > -- PuppetLab Developer Team: > > Luke Kanies > Markus Roberts > Rein Henrichs > Jesse Wolfe > Igal Koshevoy > Matt Robinson > Nick Lewis > Paul Berry > Jacob Helwig > > * Actually, it's probably something like k*(sqrt(s^2/n)-r) for n developers > of mean radius r in a s x s office, with k some constant around 3. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en. > -- nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
