On 05/18/2015 11:35 AM, Stefan Reich wrote:
Lots of rules, Americans in the background... I don't see that it works.
Why don't we spend our time just PRODUCING SOMETHING?
All you'd have to do is connect programmers to projects. Simple. Why all
the rules?
Cheers
Stefan
Hi Stefan,
In my experience, the code is the easy part of a project, while building
and maintaining a community around it is the hard part. That's what
Apache focuses on: building a healthy community around a project so that
it lives beyond a single developer.
That's quite a bit more than connecting programmers with projects. For
example, what happens when the developers disagree? How do we disagree
politely and move on? Who says we *should* disagree politely and move
on? Apache's answer to this is what is behind the voting and procedure.
In addition, there are a number of concerns around ownership and
responsibility. There are a lot of rules concerning licensing that are
in place to protect contributors and those require some diligence and,
unfortunately, rules.
rb
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Ryan Blue
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