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...
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