I'll be sure to pass the message on to my boss. Yeah, there's few good reasons to maintain a private fork... and that line of reasoning is definitely not one of them.
On Jan 23, 2008 11:49 AM, Daniel Hulme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's great. Be sure to thank your employer on my behalf (and probably > all of our behalves) for being so supportive. Many places let their > employees have pet projects, because it often produces real value for > the company that it would otherwise miss out through being too > narrow-minded, but I've never worked anywhere that encouraged people to > contribute to open-source projects they use. > > In fact, going the other way, I've worked in one place where they > maintained a private fork of SQLite rather than allow programmers to > submit changes upstream. Needless to say, this piece of stupidity was > quite representative of management attitudes and the codebase as a whole. _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
