I was not aware that someone has codified this. The "Rules for Revolutionaries" is very very good. There is an elegant order out of disorder theme that permeates it. Thank you. -Greg
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > >
