I found the following reference in the p5p archives to a paper
discussing open source development. I think this should be mandatory
reading for anyone contemplating a contribution to the RFC mountain.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html
Alan Burlison
erl5's death have been greatly exaggerated. I'm
sure you know that already, and I think you could have been more careful
with your choice of wording.
Alan Burlison
d I hope I am. However, past bitter
experience tells me that I'm probably at least partly correct, so please
don't discard my comments out of hand.
I'm sorry but I really can't stomach watching this slow motion train
wreck any longer, so good luck and goodbye.
Alan Burlison
;re getting close, and I certainly
> agree that the human issues will indeed be a very big hurdle, probably the
> biggest hurdle facing the entire project.
Wrong, it should have been the first thing that was done. If it had,
the current mess wouldn't have happened.
--
Alan Burlison
"An optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience."
-- Don Marquis --
knows in
>advance how it will work and nobody feels like it's an arbitrary
>"management" (ha!) decision.
Please make strenuous efforts to lay out the ground rules as soon as
possible.
> [this risk won't kill the project, though, merely hurt peoples' feelings]
It'll kill it if you hurt enough peoples feelings...
Alan Burlison
dea up, and if it gets shot at enough,
retire it - is a lead that hopefully others will follow. I kept looking
at the ever-increasing number of often conflicting RFCs (as you have
identified) with an increasing sense of foreboding, as none of them
seemed to be subject to the effects of natural selection and becoming
extinct.
Once again, Thanks!
Alan Burlison
which they
appeared. I just hope the code is produced at the same prodigious rate
;-) As I said I was becoming increasingly dismayed by the continuing
stream of RFCs, and in the end felt I had to raise the issue. Having
done so I have been very happy to see the wide consensus that seems to
be appearing.
Alan Burlison
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Alan Burlison
