Hi David,
First thank you very much for your involvement into the community, I
hope you'll be able to continue to do so.
Le 28/08/2020 à 05:11, David Leangen a écrit :
Hi Rene,
I have observed a few different types of approaches to OSS:
* Haphazard “me” approach.
I think you are correct, I would say that now it is more later approach as
well. Well at least since I started working on the project (might have been
different before).
Thank you very much for your comments. Yes, that is very helpful!
I fall into this trap often, and I think I am not the only one, but sometimes I
explain what I **aspire** a project to be, not really what it is now. I think
it is crucial to explain both. We need to be able to give proper information to
newcomers so they can make a correct assessment. I think what you mention makes
sense and I can work with that.
Perhaps we should just wait in case anybody else would also like to add
something?
So I would describe James as:
* Currently in a state of transition (this is what James is now)
* What we aspire it to be for version xxx (I am proposing v4.0)
Just a crazy thought, but technically, I could even create the v4.0 of the
documentation, and we could even use it almost like a specification to guide
the development. Of course, the real work gets done based on JIRA issues, but
the issues that get created in the first place could be matched against the
v4.0 docs.
From my point of view the most important point is to describe what
James does now. It is what is more helpful to users (operators), and
also to brand the product as it allows to have a view of several
capabilities of the product.
What we aspire to is also interesting, but less important, and above all
subject to change, so it brings less value to users. On the contrary it
can bring value to contributors as it helps them to get where we want to go.
Anyway we are always encouraging contributions, so if you prefer working
on our aspiration (as a community) than on the current state, this is
also very welcome.
Cheers,
Raphaël.
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