On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Torben Weis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Thank you for that! I had recently updated how the specifications and whitepapers are handled but forgot to send a general note to the list. I will do that now. Thanks, -joe > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
