On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:02, Ben Hyde wrote:
Projects that: fail to
welcome new comers; fail to bring in credible new contributors ... well
they are just stupid. They will ultimately become dysfunctional and
implode.
Question; Should Open Source be Open Participation?
I am sure that the upper-tier of ASF would shiver at the thought that hordes
of people can gain direct access to the repositories. They/we will dust of
the same arguments of why Wiki won't work. But it does. Why? Because *most*
people *want* it to work.
The question is not a boolean. The question is how does open source manage open participation? The short and therefore meaningless answer is merit.
Open source should be open participation, and of course it shouldn't be open to everybody.
All organizations have to mange what I call their cell wall, the membrane around them. The membrane is used to manage quality and enable coordinated activity. You can not survive without one. If the membrane is too thick then you stagnate, starve, etc.
Here are two things I've written before about his: <http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/01/demand-for-features/> and <http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/10/hording-and-exploiting/>
- ben
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