On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:18 AM, stewart mackenzie <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >> Having said that, there is nothing stopping anyone from forking and >> doing a major rewrite (per Fergal’s latest email - just saw that while >> writing this). Grok might decide to switch to this once the new >> implementation is ready but we can’t commit to that. >> > > If that happens you'll probably not have copyright. Its never a good idea > to hardfork (from a point of view of community dissatisfaction). It > shouldn't be lightly brought up as a solution (especially from the > custodian) as it could indicate a lack of appreciation towards the > community. A successful open source project has the community. If Nupic > forks and the community goes with the fork, Numenta fails. People use > Libreoffice since last I looked. Also things get nasty, its is a last > resort. A path never taken easily. > We don't want a "hardfork" in NuPIC, but I think Subutai is just stating (like I did earlier) that we cannot stop that from happening if we don't take NuPIC in a direction that is consistent with community needs. I think we can still devise a plane that will make us all happy, somewhere in the middle ground. If we do this incrementally, there is nothing preventing us from moving quickly towards all the goals Fergal and Stewart want. There doesn't have to be a hardfork for this to happen, and we don't need to disconnect Grok from using the bleeding edge of NuPIC either. Extracting the core is only the first step on this journey. Once it is complete, there will be much more clarity about what is happening within the core vs in the python client, and we can take the steps necessary to make the core complete. What we really, really need is regression tests. Once those are in place around the core, it will make us much more confident to merge PRs without a detailed local analysis. --------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta
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