Shawn Walker wrote: > Considering the excruciatingly slow process of making contributions to > some of the projects here, I don't see what would motivate folks.
And that comes straight back to resourcing again. > It seems relevant to me that the projects with the lowest barriers to > contribution (such as the spec files repository that the desktop and > sfw communities appear to share) appear to have the highest number of > external contributions. So how do you explain the almost total lack of response to the defect management stuff, the same lack of response to the website restructuring proposals I put out? And what about the appallingly abusive email thread that appeared on sysadmin-discuss about the new packaging system? Again, proposals for the packaging have been available for some considerable time, and the people who are now being so abusive didn't see fit to comment at the time. I agree with Keith on one thing - Sun engineers are not some sort of private development team that is at the beck and call of random people who subscribe to sundry opensolaris.org lists. In all the other communities I've been a member of, having your voice listened to is a privilege, not a right, and it's a privilege that's earned in proportion to the contribution level, not volume level. -- Alan Burlison --
