An excellent idea! Sent from my iPad
On Sep 11, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Mike Schrag <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm thinking I will setup a git svn clone on github for Wonder ... For now > the master would still be the sourceforge SVN one, but this will allow people > to fork and contribute changes, which we can pull back into the SVN version > selectively. > > ms > > On Sep 11, 2010, at 1:44 PM, David LeBer wrote: > >> >> 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/mschrag%40pobox.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > 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/webobjects%40avendasora.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ 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]
