An excellent idea!

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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
>> 
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