Re: [go-nuts] Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-28 Thread Matt Farina
Russ, I'm happy you updated the public docs on the proposal review process. It is much more clear now. Thanks. Thanks for publicly listing the people on the review process. It helps people have insights. And, thanks for listing Peter who is not on that GitHub team. He's a Googler I didn't real

Re: [go-nuts] Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-28 Thread Matt Farina
Thanks for the details, Russ. On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at 11:53:09 AM UTC-4, Russ Cox wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:08 PM Matt Farina > wrote: > >> 1) when a company runs a project without much publicly documented process >> but does as they choose, isn't

Re: [go-nuts] Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-27 Thread Matt Farina
> Ian mentioned that "Google" as a company doesn't actually choose to do a > lot. The Go team is largely autonomous in their decision making and isn't > being influenced by executives. > So, to put it another way: If the only role the company plays is to > provide paychecks to some Go develope

Re: [go-nuts] Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-27 Thread Matt Farina
from multiple companies with differing concerns on it. But, that's just wondering. I use Go. Gonna start something new in go soon, too. -- Matt Farina mattfarina.com Go in Practice <http://goinpracticebook.com/> - A book of Recipes for the Go programming language. Code Engineered <htt

Re: [go-nuts] Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-27 Thread Matt Farina
This whole conversation illustrates the difference between open source and open governance. Go is open source but the governance is controlled by Google. This compares to something like Kubernetes that is both open source and open governance. Should Go be open governance? It sounds like this is

[go-nuts] Package Management Survey Results

2016-11-03 Thread Matt Farina
A couple months ago we had a package management survey. Since the survey closed the data has been fed into the package management committee. Now we are sharing the data, that was not asked to be kept private. This can be read at https://docs.google.com/document/d/15j_Q6RRX_LH6tu4DNDm-vAcWAUablq