Shawn Walker wrote: >>> 2) New contributors are scared away and don't know how to contribute >>> since almost none of the projects or communities have a simple "How to >>> contribute" page >> That's an easy fix, and one that the communities and projects could do now. > > Since the OGB shouldn't have to tell projects to do this, is there a > better way to communicate such suggestions to projects?
Umm, other than telling them if they haven't done so, I can't think of one - but you seem to think that the OGB shouldn't be telling them... >> Welcome to a distributed community, working on a huge software project. >> This has been a fact of life for me in *all* my time in Sun >> Engineering. I work in the UK, not MPK and most of the time I have >> little idea what is happening in areas that I'm not directly involved in >> - why would someone from say, ZFS, consult *me*? I really think there >> were enough hints that something was up in the packaging area - even *I* >> in my bunker in Darkest Derbyshire realised that. If you want to know, >> you have to ask. > > Regardless of the reality, the perception is that the *Open* in > OpenSolaris implies this consideration being given without being asked > for. Whether that is reasonable to expect is beyond my abilities to > qualify. My point is that people inside and people outside are treated identically in this regard, as far as I can tell. I'm not saying that communications couldn't/shouldn't be improved, just that people in the external community shouldn't feel they are being victimised when they are being treated just the same as everyone else. > Let's not play a blame game. I don't blame Sun for all of the failings > of the community, and vice versa should be true as well. No, I can fully understand (and indeed I share) many of the frustrations of the external community. However I feel that the criticisms were becoming unjustifiably vituperative, and something had to be said. Those of us working on the project need the *support* of the opensolaris community (of which we are a part, after all), not its censure. -- Alan Burlison --
