On Feb 3, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Christian Martinez wrote: > First, I have to make a disclaimer that everything I'm about to say is my > opinion only and does not reflect any official MSFT position. > > Personally I love the give and take and don't feel threatened or upset by any > of the shenanigans. I find them a natural part of the OSS process. Before I > joined the monolith I used to work exclusively in the OSS world using things > like ACE/TAO, MICO, every Java framework imaginable etc... There was never a > shortage of interesting discussions/rants. > > What I've observed is that every one of the projects that were successful had > a benevolent dictator and a few hard core contributors. As long as that basic > infrastructure is there and passion remains then I feel comfortable telling > as many folks as possible to check out 0MQ. We've embraced Node and Hadoop > very publicly as a company and work deeply with those projects. I'd love it > if someday we can do that with 0MQ as well.
Your experience with OSS mirrors mine (benevolent dictator plus a few hard-core contributors). With 0mq we are trying to modify that a bit where there is no benevolent dictator and we want a lot more than just a "few" hard-core contributors. :) > If you're concerned with stability take a branch/build, stick to that and > maybe pick up a support contract especially if you're restricted to binary > only... For anyone relying on this for production, this is a good idea. Either pick up a paid contract *or* become a contributor and help guide the evolution. A completely hands-off approach is likely to leave you dissatisfied in the long run. > Well that's enough pontificating ....I'll go back to hacking the broken Node > binding now (It breaks under Node's move to libuv ...nothing really to do > with 0MQ which I'm barred from hacking directly :( ) So sad. The library needs some serious love on the Windows platform (ipc transport, zmq_poll, etc) but most of the contributors are UNIX-only. Please do some lobbying if you can! cr _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
