On 2010-09-11, at 1:24 PM, David BON wrote: > Today, to contribute is either writing documentation, doing a screencast or > submit patches. Imo, only some WO masters can give back to the community a > whole new framework (the commiters). > > Speaking for myself, I've got some ideas to extend existing frameworks but > I'm not even sure that there are good ideas, and if so that the way I could > implement it will comply to some underground (because not clearly exposed > anywhere) development standard or philosophy of those frameworks.
I would suggest implementing your changes and talking about them to the world. Unfortunately the current centralized repo setup makes this more difficult than it could be, but if your changes have merit they will be recognized, if they don't and you get feedback to that effect, as long as you respond and learn, your stature as an active member of the community will be. > I also believe that some contributions could (only) be done by a _team_ of > volunteers. How the community organize today (if there _is_ a way of > proceeding) such a team work? Most current contributor are either lone wolfs or point people fronting a (possibly hidden) team. Personally, we work on stuff that has value for our clients right now. If it looks useful to the wider world I try and contribute it, or talk about it, or make a screen cast about it, or write a blog post about it. I think that if you have an idea that requires a team, you are best to create a focused proof of concept and then use that to recruit a group of people who will have a vested personal interest in having it fleshed out. With this stuff, where you are relying on volunteer contributions, my belief is that organic growth is always a better road to success than large upfront requirements. > Regards. > > David B. > > Le 11 sept. 10 à 16:49, Mike Schrag a écrit : > >> the best thing the community can do to increase the number of people >> contributing is to contribute. don't start a committee to investigate the >> creation of a project to contribute to the community. just contribute. ;david -- David LeBer Codeferous Software 'co-def-er-ous' adj. Literally 'code-bearing' site: http://codeferous.com blog: http://davidleber.net profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidleber twitter: http://twitter.com/rebeld -- Toronto Area Cocoa / WebObjects developers group: http://tacow.org _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
