2009/1/28 Antony Blakey <[email protected]>: >> The project wasn't set up as blank page with a group of people >> discussing what they wanted to do, it was a single persons vision. A >> vision that other people thought was cool and have come together to >> make it better. > > And now it's an Apache project, so it's no longer appropriate for it to be > one person's vision.
Yes, I agree. But the project has momentum behind the original vision. A vision that others have picked up and run with as a community. This a good thing because a project without vision is doomed to fail. This doesn't mean that the direction can't be discussed or changed, but you need to convince people that are all running in one direction that they need to change course. You seem to get upset when decisions are made that fit well with the basic guiding vision that was there when the project was initiated. I don't think this is a single persons vision any more, rather the vision of the PMC and a large chunk of the rest of the community. Yes, there could probably be a better laid out roadmap with documentation and plans, bat as always that's at the bottom of the to do list. And how much of it needs to be discussed? How many people here want to spend time discussing core principals of what makes CouchDB CouchDB? Do you want to discuss CouchDB becoming relational? It's an Apache project now, has that been discussed since then, or is it OK to assume that a core part of the original vision is that CouchDB is not relational? So if you have something you want to discuss, bring it up, but please leave the complaining that it's not been discussed *yet* at the door. -- Kerr
