> So, Apache is the boss of Costin and pays him to do work on Tomcat 4 but
he
> works on 3.3 instead?
Nearly all the open-source projects out there have a "boss" who gets to
decide whether or not they like your stuff. If you fail to convince them
that your stuff is the One and Only Good Way to do things (although, unlike
Costin, I don't think there's such a thing), then your stuff is not going to
get in, and you'll have to choose whether or not you accept their decision.
If you don't, you'll have to fork the project. I think that's fine, and it
has happened quite frequently in oss in the past.
But the main point is at at some point there has to be some kind of final
decision taken by some authority. Otherwise it's chaos, and nothing
productive gets done.
Frankly, if I was Costin, and I disagreed on everything as much as he does,
I would have forked the project long ago (instead of regularly posting rants
and FUD about how much the competing project sucks, which doesn't help
anyone).
> How voluntary is voluntary work here?
Nobody's forcing anyone to do anything, but they have to follow rules and
accept decisions (after contributing to the making of those decisions). If
they don't, they're allowed to fork the project and keep the code. Where
else do you expect to find more freedom ?
Remy
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