Thank you Ashish, that's great reading material. I particularly enjoyed these two sections:
http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/setting-tone.html#prevent-rudeness http://producingoss.com/html-chunk/social-infrastructure.html#benevolant-dictator-qualifications For those keeping tabs, this post is admitingly, trolling - trying to elicit a response. Most previous messages were offering criticism and more importantly, solutions. --- Ashish Vijaywargiya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > Here is the book "Producing Open Source Software by > Karl Fogel" link that is freely available........ > http://producingoss.com/ > > Regards > Ashish Vijaywargiya > "David E. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > BJ Freeman wrote: > > If this is truly a community, and there are people > involved that really > > have knowledge about something, What is the > Hierarchy of Decisions based > > on the ASF way? > > > > Or is this a vialed attempt to look like a > community with only one > > persons Making the decisions. > > > > From what I have seen certain individuals do > commit and contribute, > > without a problem. So this is not a one man show. > > > > What seems to be the questions is the guidelines > for making decisions. > > it is truly a community when all seem to have > access to the guidelines. > > > > I think getting a set of guidelines for all to > have access to would > > alleviate the pressure felt when there is an > disagreement. > > I'm not sure what sort of guidelines would be > applicable here. Because of human nature the > possible problems arising are nearly limitless... > > Still, I guess the basic structure is simple. The > committers make the decisions. Of course, part of > the responsibility of being a committer (as > described in the OFBiz Committers Roles and > Responsibilities page, linked to below), is > facilitating community interaction and > contributions, so a lot of this "decision making" is > just review, feedback, and a yes or no decision on > whether a patch is ready or not. > > So no, committers don't drive everything that > happens in the project, but they are the filter that > everything goes through to try to keep the project > clean and vital. > > I'll talk more about the already established > guidelines below. > > > I have purchased the Vol 1 and II and will begin > reading them this > > winter, maybe on the train ride to Portland. > > Which volumes are these? I'm not aware of any books > (especially specific to OFBiz) that talk about > decision making guidelines like this... Actually > there are some books about managing open source > projects that are interesting, like: > > "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel > > Note that this is a very general book and is not > necessarily about the ASF way or the way things are > done in OFBiz. It is good general commentary and > I've found it interesting and helpful. It is > available for download (I have a PDF sitting on my > machine), but I don't remember exactly where I > downloaded. > > > So if there are other documents that are involved, > I will purchase or > > read those. > > > > Just point me to the documents that define the > framework for decision > > making on this project. > > The best documents about this for ASF are on the ASF > site itself. There are quite a few things to read > through in different places, but a good place to > start is: > > http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html > > The whole page is good, but the Meritocracy section > is especially important. > > One things to keep in mind with OFBiz is that much > of the software is business automation oriented and > not technical in nature. You'll see a lot of stuff > written about Linux and other very technically > oriented projects and those are good places to > start, but I've found that certain variations on > those are very important for more business oriented > open source projects, especially the very few such > projects that are community rather than corporate > driven. So, in other words, read lightly and > consider it input to be refined and then applied. > > There are some OFBiz specific pages that have > recently been established that cover these sorts of > guidelines, so here they are: > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Committers+Roles+and+Responsibilities > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices > > A good source of information, BTW, is just glancing > at the mailing list messages every so often. These > documents, for example, and the direct result of > discussions on the dev list and were announced there > as well. > > -David > > > > --------------------------------- > Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make > PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1�/min.
