Hi,

The barrier for contributing to this is higher than it would be with a
> wiki; but for specifications and similar documents, this is probably a
> good thing.  Please send your contributions through the usual code
> review channels.  We would like to see the errors that you found
> fixed.
>

I submitted an updated federation spec for code review. I am sure that there
are more issues that I have forgotten about.  In addition, I inserted a few
comments. In some places FedOne behavior is not in sync with the spec and I
am not sure whose fault this is, i.e. spec or FedOne. I hope you find the
patch or parts of it useful.

As a general side note: In the KDE project we could deal with people
submitting without review. The responsible project owner had to review
changes of newbies as they appeared in the SVN. Large or fundamental changes
had to be discussed on mailing lists before they were committed. If a
submitter messed things up (which happened), he got a slap on his fingers.
If that did not help, SVN access could be removed (although I cannot
remember a case where this has happened). All it takes is a project owner
who has a look on changes done by new developers. I like this optimistic
model more, because it allows the project to move fast. But wave uses a
pessimistic model which is more company-style and less
open-source-project-style. Looking at the codereview web site I see a 3 week
old patch of James still pending. That is not really encouraging, is it?
Furthermore,. the contributors are not listed prominently. For example Tad
Glines did a useful patch for me but his name is hard to find at all. If
Google really wants to run an open source project. someone should rethink
the modus operandi. Now, I promise that this was my last comment on this
issue :-)

Cheers
Torben

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