robert burrell donkin ha scritto: > On 7/12/07, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > >> In the mean time I also stopped trying to include my patches in current >> trunk as my local branch diverged too much from the current code and >> being not able to smoothly push a new branch and a shared goal I had to >> take this sad decision. > > i know that i've been guilty of doing something similar but maybe it > would make sense to at least keep the branch in the repository? > > - robert
WARN: veterans of the list may skip this, everything has already been told previously. Some fact: 1) To keep my local branch open source/ASF ready (write on my own every piece of code and make sure of any legal requirement, do not use GPL/LGPL code, add english javadocs, etc) is not for free. 2) The advantage of using an official released product instead of a locally patched one is higher than the cost described at #1. 3) Features written by others come for free. 4) I enjoy collaboration and team-working WHEN I see the results. #1 needs a return in #2, #3 and #4 or we have a no go. I'm here since 2 years and I dedicated very much to #1 and got back almost nothing from #2 (I currently have some official 2.3.1 servers in production, while 2 years ago I was on local patched releases, but I still have a very diverging branch for some server), almost nothing from #3 and a partial results on #4 (mainly on jspf and some server component). I spent more than 50% of my time discussing about things that produced nothing good: too much resources wasted. An active community where people help each other instead of simply criticize and some interesting *code* for my use cases (I don't need IMAP, so from here JAMES Server is stalled since 8 months) are 2 of the missing requirements for me to start again #1. Thank you for the question, and I hope we will be able to work together on some concrete piece of code, sooner or later! Stefano --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
