> Nearly all the open-source projects out there have a "boss" who gets to
> decide whether or not they like your stuff.
Perfect, but as Hans mentioned, there was never a decision to stop 3.3.
And I have been seing much more rants and FUD from Jon, "which doesn't
help anyone".
And my problem is not with Apache rules but with Jon's "rules".
Have fun,
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 02:00
>
>
> > 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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