Well that is true. I think I'm stating the obvious when I say there is also a danger in too little direction and focus. I imagine we will find a happy medium somewhere in between.
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Grant Ingersoll<gsing...@apache.org> wrote: > > The hard thing about all of this is, in open source, you never know where > the next good idea is coming from, especially in community-driven projects > (as opposed to the "benevolent dictator" models where one or two people > drive the whole thing.) You can plan all you want, but when someone comes > along with some really nice idea that doesn't fit into your plans, it's > pretty hard to turn them away when it meets with the general goals of the > project. For instance, there is a PLSI implementation sitting in JIRA that > just so happens to be implemented in Pig. I can't say Pig was in my > original plans, but I have no objection to it and plan on committing it once > I review it. Even LDA and the frequent pattern mining weren't in the > "original" plans, yet I think they are welcome additions. > > That's not to say we shouldn't clean things up and do some planning, but as > with everything, it's all going to be driven by how people contribute and > who takes on the work. The plus side to cleaning up, etc. is that it should > make it easier for people to contribute. > > -Grant > >
