вівторок 29 січень 2008 05:24 по, Stephen J. Turnbull Ви написали: > This is false. "Open source" means you can do what you like, and > Mailman actually will distribute it for you as a patch on the issue > tracker. Many contributions have lived full life cycles that way.
Thank you, sir, for the encouragement, but I don't want my hypothetical contribution to live this way. I've contributed plenty to various open- (and closed-) source projects over the years (no, really, I did) and found, that it hurts me the most, when something I develop is rejected not because of it being poorly implemented, but because the powers-that-be consider in wrong /in principle/. My interest in Mailman is not sufficient to fork my own version either and I don't look forward to maintaining my patch(es), updating them to keep working with the evolving Mailman. > Anything not over Barry Warsaw's signature is *un*official [...] Brad > Knowles is just channelling the main developers As you may realize, I have no idea of the Mailman project hierarchy. Brad's words sounded quite authoritative, and he was no contradicted in any follow-ups... > It should go without saying that it's very interesting; this is a FAQ [...] Woo-hoo. That's encouraging. Well, if the only thing, that prevented the feature from appearing by now, is lack of development resources, then I'll get right on it. Thanks, -mi ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
