On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 22:16 -0500, Greg Stein wrote: > Not a "strong opinion", but I think that RTC hampers the free-flow of > ideas, experimentation, evolution, and creativity. It is a damper on > expressivity. You maneuver bureaucracy to get a change in. CTR is > about making a change and discussing it. But you get *forward > progress*. > > I also feel that RTC will tend towards *exclusivity* rather than the > Apache ideal of *inclusivity*. That initial review is a social and > mental burden for new committers. People are afraid enough of > submitting patches and trying to join into a development community, > without making them run through a front-loaded process.
I agree with this, and as a Cassandra committer I have in the past protested our use of RTC. However, the current work-flow *in practice* is more about having someone, anyone, give changes a once over (making sure they build, that tests pass, that they do what they claim, etc), before committing. I agree with you, but tabled my protest because in practice what we have is working, doesn't seem to be a barrier to contribution, and everyone seems happy with it (even the casual contributors). I actually work with these people on a daily basis, and I trust that when/if it actually does become a problem, that people will be open to changing it. > I've participated in both styles of development. RTC is *stifling*. I > would never want to see that in any Apache community for its routine > development (branch releases are another matter). > > My opinion is that it is very unfortunate that Cassandra feels that it > cannot trust its developers with a CTR model, and pushes RTC as its > methodology. The group-mind smashes down the creativity of the > individual, excited, free-thinking contributor. Cassandra is in incubation, so by all means, use the IPMC group-mind to smash the individual, excited, and free-thinking Cassandra contributors into submission. -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
