On 02/10/2007, Keith Wesolowski <Keith.Wesolowski at sun.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:02:24PM -0500, 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. > > > > 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. > > I think it depends what you mean by barrier. Is the requirement for > code review a barrier? Is technical complexity? Absolutely. SFE is
Sorry, I should have been clearer. Contribution review isn't a problem; I wholeheartedly support that. The main problem is that some projects have processes that (apparently) can only be performed by Sun folks which brings us back to resource limitations. It's a vicious cycle. > All that doesn't mean the contribution process elsewhere isn't > needlessly cumbersome. I've suggested several times that SCAs should > be eliminted, for instance. We all know that b.o.o is a joke and that I have no problem with the SCA, I signed one, it was a one time thing and not that big of a deal. I think it's entirely necessary given the copyright fiascos that have been going on in the various open source projects "out there" right now. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
