> Lots of rules, Americans in the background... I don’t see that it works.
Actually Apache folks are pretty much spread around the world. There are a lot of us in Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Italia, Poland, etc > All you'd have to do is connect programmers to projects. Simple. Why all > the rules? That’s like saying that all you need to do for building a car is to take a motor and 4 tyres. You obviously didn’t take the time to learn about what e.g. is necessary to prevent getting your a** sued and nailed to some door. You didn’t learn what you need to take care in hindsight of trademarks and export restrictions. You didn’t learn how to build a proper community around a good idea. Etc, etc, etc Trust me, there is a good reason why things sometimes seem to run a bit slower. That doesn’t mean that we are not productive. It just means that we know what we do. Did you ever have a computer science lesson at your university? One of my old professors (back in the early 90s) told us once that only 20% of the effort of a project goes into creating the initial code base. And he was not talking about a prototype draft - he was really talking about the final product. When YOU think you are really done and ready for production, then you are at max 20% of time AND cost. To turn this into something you can _really_ use in production you will need another 30%. And then all the maintenance and polishing starts. And this will take you at least the same amount of time and cash. Back then I thought he is wrong and I had to learn it the hard way. Today I know that 20% is probably even too much ;) LieGrue, strub > Am 18.05.2015 um 20:35 schrieb Stefan Reich > <stefan.reich.maker.of....@googlemail.com>: > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
