Tight control is ok for with me. In fact I prefer the option of: - big company uses the thing a lot to deliver real service - big company finds issues and fixes them - big company put's it's neck on the line to test it very well by real usage.
I think real usage, practical experience on a high volume system is invaluable. Hence the dudes who work, and have exposure to such system should make the decision, demonstrate leadership and given more freedom over perceived benefits. For my selfish reasons I trust more the pressure of keeping a system running and "battle testing" than an essay competition on a mailing list. Apache "sprit" or not, I would like to complement a strong and visionary leadership, accepting practical patches. If it does not fit the Apache style, find another repo rather than discourage access to "battle tested" goodness. If your feel your input is not taken: fork and demonstrate. The Apache license is sweet, allows easy forking, when I needed the AS3 patch I forked for a while, I still maintain it, once there is a demand for fresh AS3 goodness I will make a new patch, and I expect popular demand will float it into the the HEAD. It is evolution, simple economics not democracy and that is a OK with me. Aron On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Michael Walsh <mich...@michael.ie> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Mayan Moudgill <ma...@bestweb.net> wrote: >> If I may put in $0.02 - that is the main design decisions which I wonder >> about. Why not write the core in C and export the functions via wrappers to >> each of the 15 languages? Among other things, this would enable any >> improvements in the underlying communication infrastructure to be available >> to everyone. >> > Where "everyone" is defined as environments where you can, and are > willing to interop with C. > This might be going off into a tangent about the early design > decisions of this system, but I suspect for most of us using Thrift, > if we had to interop with c assemblies instead of remaining completely > in our languages of choice, we wouldn't even use Thrift in the first > place. That is true for me. >
