At 04:38 AM 11/27/2004, Mark Womack wrote:
Nicko,
2) I think some kind of bug tracking system is required. Users of the
library will use it to enter bugs and obviously the committers will use it
to track and resolve issues. I see this more as a communication medium
and a long-term continuity issue. Searching through mail archives to find
bug resolutions can be tedious. Yes, you get questions in the bugs, but
you can always close them and educate the user as to what forum to use for
such issues.
I do agree with you. However, there is bigger principle involved
here. Given that we (as in you and me) presumably are not going to do
the actual work, it is not this PMC's job to tell log4net how to
handle their day to day business. This PMC can provide guidelines but
the ultimate decision power regarding low-level technical details,
subject only to the means at our disposal, lies with the people doing
the work, the log4net community in this case. If log4net decides not
to use a given resource at their disposal, it is their choice. This
principle has important positive implications. First, it avoids
suffocating the people doing the (grunt?) work. It gives them the
liberty to mature on their own, by making their own mistakes and
learning from them.
This PMC will intervene, potentially with a heavy hand, only in cases
involving IP rights, licensing and the collaborative nature of a given
project under its purview. Our culture of trust and pervasive
delegation has been one of the secret recipes for our success whereas
tight procedures tend to be as helpful and pleasant as the odor of
second hand garlic.
thanks,
-Mark
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