Ben Rockwood wrote:
> Let me put this another way... is the only engineering related reason to
> participate in the OpenSolaris community to putback to the ON gate?
[...obviously OpenSolaris is more than simply the ON gate...]
foreach $X in { Thunderbird, WordPress, ApacheHTTPD, Sendmail,...}
... Is the only reason to participate in the $X
community to putback to the $X gate?
end
I'd say, 99% of the time, yes!
Lets optimize for the common expected use case, not the fringe
"I want to play by myself and fork my own" exception, which is
IMO already handled by the CDDL. If you want to go off and do
your own thing, go for it - the *Community* has no obligation
to help antisocial efforts that will just fragment itself.
OTOH, if you are trying to figure out how a community can
encourage both evolutionary and revolutionary changes to itself,
the processes referenced earlier (ON dev process, ARC...)
are designed to easily and actively support both. Maybe there
are other viable options than simply becoming yet another Apache
Project...
-John
