Jon Stevens wrote: > > There were no documents like that before I wrote it.
Forgive me, but I still hold to my belief that that at the time it was written, that document wasn't worth the paper it was written on. > Just like there was no nag.pl before I came up with the idea to implement > it. You can believe what you want. It was part of my master plan. > If anything, you initially resisted nag.pl. One way I know this is because > as the PMC Chair, you refused make it a requirement of projects to have it > enabled. Instead, you relied on social pressures to work their magic. This > actually extended the amount of time it took for people to adopt Gump and > raise its awareness. It also caused quite a bit of pain (as you say below) > as projects had votes against it. IIRC, your plan was to send nags on succcesses as well as failures. Re: mass conversion - I still believe that there would have been mass revolt instead. I do not have enough arms and legs to be everywhere at all times. I have deliberatedly paced the rate at which I have incorporated new codebases based on how many battles I felt that I could concurrently fight. There are quite a few code bases that took a number of iterations before the either saw the light or resigned themselves to the fact that I wasn't going to relent. > Exactly. I feel that this lack of semblance of control from the top has > actually hurt us. Looking at the success of other projects which have more > control at the top makes me realize this. Jakarta to me is now a complete > anarchy where people can do whatever they want without having to worry about > consequences over the long term. I do what I can at the pace I am able. - Sam Ruby -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
