This is a great post. I nominate it to be added to the Struts "how to contribute" section. It's worth sharing in an official matter: the correct attitude of helping.
--- Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/16/06, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The difference is that Spring is commercial open source. Here it needs > > a volunteer willing to do it and the problem with that if "eat our own > > dog food" how likely is it there'll be a volunteer wanting to back > > port? > > Following up on something Niall said elsewhere, the trick to open > source is to concentrate on scratching your own itch. If there's a > feature that *you* want implemented for *your* application, go ahead > and implement it, and then try to share the wealth. Worst case, you've > got a feature that you needed. Ditto for patches and fixes. Worse > case, you've patched your copy of the framework so that it works > better for you. > > Anytime anyone says something like "I don't want to do this work > unless it's going to be accepted to the distribution", then the first > thing I think is that this person is volunteering for the wrong > reasons, and, if so, it would be better if they didn't volunteer to do > the work. > > -Ted. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
