On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:42:26PM +0000, Kerr Rainey wrote: > 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. >
As long as it *is* the vision of the PMC, and not the vision of one person and the PMC, like sheep, simply accept it... -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [email protected] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war" ~ John Adams
