On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Laurent Bercot <[email protected] > wrote:
> On 22/04/2015 01:40, Buck Evan wrote: > >> I didn't know until you two told me just now. >> Can we have a link in the doc? >> > > Good idea, thank you. Done now, in the "Download" section of > the main page. Thanks! Just to set my own expectations, may I send pull requests to github, or must I send patches here? If not, you may want to add a CONTRIBUTING doc outlining the corrected procedure. Any people attempting to "do it wrong" would then see it before submitting a PR. https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines To be clear: it's very much intentional that the s6 development model is a > cathedral and not a bazaar. I did not know that. It does make it clear that what you're doing is intentional. I brought up the bazaar because you criticized systemd as neglecting "The bazaar approach that has made the free software ecosystem what it is today;", which made me think s6 would embrace the bazaar in contrast. http://skarnet.org/software/s6/systemd.html The project will not grow fast, ... While I agree that lines-of-code should not grow fast, I would enjoy seeing user uptake grow much more quickly, and I believe that's part of your project goal, someday. > ... but it will > grow with a clear and coherent vision, and avoid creeping featurism as much > as possible. For such a piece of software, I believe it is the right > choice. I think the cpython project shows that populism and restraint aren't mutually exclusive features. It's a very bazaar-oriented project, but also quite conservative about feature creep, with all major design decisions stopping with the BDFL. https://github.com/python/cpython/graphs/contributors
