Martin Bochnig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Alan Coopersmith
> <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>>> IF sun believes in true (and fair) open source collaboration, why did
>>> sun's DRM/DRI porting crew (from China?) never push their Solaris port
>>> upstream into DRM/DRI's official git repo?
>> Because Sun is made up of over 30,000 people (for another few weeks at
>> least), and many of us believe different things than others of us, so
>> it's hard to say that "Sun believes ..." and that then everyone at Sun
>> will do whatever is necessary to do that.
>
> Can everybody of those 30K do what he/she wants?
> I thought there is some sort or hierarchical organization.
Yes, there is a fairly standard tree organization, with decisions being
made at all branches of the tree. With 30k people, there's too many
decisions to be made to wait for Jonathan to make them all and pass them
down, so they're made at whatever level of the tree is appropriate, including
many at the leaf levels (aka individual employees).
I've not seen any high-level dictates of "push as many changes as possible
upstream" - it's a lesson many of the groups have learned and follow, but
that doesn't make it universally applied.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
