You clearly failed in understanding the gist of the issue so i will respond to the issues you have raised.
On 10 Oct 2012, at 2:14 PM, Anis Jendoubi wrote: > - you're the only boss of your project, which is ok in initial processes but > not at this stage of the project. I could not agree more. > - you keep the baruwa under your own control and not letting anyone join the > one person team, and you know well what I mean by that ;) I frankly do not know what you mean by i do not let anyone join. The door is open this is a meritocracy, you contribute code, documentation, translations or help out other users and you are in. I have never turned away anyone who wants to join the "team" > - you made the project opensource that we thank you for that (the proof is > that you got a lot of thanks for the nice project on this mailing list), > however it feels like you're not building the community well (bringing > additional developpers on board). How do you suggest i do that, i have done everything open source projects do short of dragging contributors to contribute i cannot do more. > - there are thousands of opensource projects that were ripped and made > benefit for others without bringing benefits to the original developpers (as > a simple example you can take snort which was overused commercially through > other known businesses before it showed that all their products were based on > the opensource snort engine), so IMHO you can't opensource something if you > start think that everyone will use it and benefit from it, that's not the > "opensource" approach if you know what I mean, just don't opensource it and > that's it. You clearly do not get it, the people who use snort actually make an effort to make it better, write code, write documentation integrate it with other products etc, they do not expect the original developers to do all that while the seat back and spend their time enjoying the finer things in life. The point am trying to make is the open source echo system must be symbiotic not one sided. To be blank, For example i use Exim am not going to spend my sunday writing postfix plugins just to look cool coz i have no use for them that is where the open source approach kicks in, someone who uses postfix must write that to solve his own problem. Until someone actively participates in making the project better, i will not listen to their grand standing. Like Linus always says show me the code. - Andrew -- www.baruwa.org _______________________________________________ Keep Baruwa FREE - http://pledgie.com/campaigns/12056
