----- Original Message ----
> From: David Reiss <dre...@facebook.com>
> To: thrift-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Sent: Sat, August 14, 2010 1:28:58 PM
> Subject: Re: sharing knowledge means sharing control
>
> > Too often I see issues filed
> > in Thrift's jira that get turned down by Facebook
> > folks without any input from non-Facebook committers.
>
> > One way to resolve this is for the Facebook employees
> > to continue to comment on these issues but to ask for
> > input from other committers before closing the issue.
>
> Joe, these comments frustrate me because the paint a negative picture of
> Mark and myself that is simply inaccurate. Mark an I both pointed out
> specific problems with the approach the submitter was taking and offered
> alternative approaches to bypass the problems. Then the submitter
> voluntarily closed his own issue. In general, I try to avoid closing
> issues as invalid and let the submitter do so (as in THRIFT-692) unless
> it is something obvious like a missing build dependency.
To be clear, I'm questioning the pattern of "who" makes these
decisions, not the decisions themselves. The comments I made
are meant to raise awareness of the perception problem of having
architectural decisions all being made by the same 2 people.
It was not meant to paint you and Mark in a negative light.
Sorry if it came across that way.
> I think it's implied that any committer (or contributor for that matter)
> should feel free to comment on any issue.
Sometimes it takes an invitation to get folks to cross that boundary.
