On 09/08/2011 18:50, Greg Sterijevski wrote: > I think you hit the nail on the head with the comment: > > "... but also the time to > experiment. Only the latter will be able to tell if the design is good. > And this must take time so that all the potential pitfalls can be ..." > > Maybe this is chumming the water with more flotsam and jetsam, but a lot of > the issues that arise in working out the best design ultimately revert to > trying out a bunch of deadends [design by monte carlo ;)] The discussion on > the list [from my rather limited history] seems to try to foresee all > possible drawbacks with a design. This inevitably devolves into heated > discussion and diminishing progress. > > Would it be possible to fork the trunk of the source tree to an > "experimental branch"?
The idea has been around almost as long as the ASF has: http://incubator.apache.org/learn/rules-for-revolutionaries.html Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
