On 02.12.2015 18:45, Markus KARG wrote:
I wouldn't bother you if I wouldn't have met those people and listened to
their ideas, BTW.
One type of ideas one can regularly see in open source communities is
'someone else should do X', where X can range from 'change their
workflow to suit mine', over 'add a feature or fix a bug affecting my
customer', to 'pay other people to do what I tell them to do', for example.
While the idea of being entitled to benefiting from other people's work
is individually attractive, in open source communities allowing too much
of this type of free riding attitude can cause a 'tragedy of the
commons'. [1]
When it comes to OpenJDK, the way it is set up to work (since its
inception) to avoid that type of problems is to mostly cater to the
needs of OpenJDK developers, rather then to the needs of users of
downstream products.
The OpenJDK processes allow and enable contributors with sufficient
skills, humbleness and experience to become OpenJDK developers
themselves, getting write access to corresponding parts of OpenJDK
infrastructure.
But contrary to what some people may think, one should not attempt to
recruit the largest possible number of contributors just for the sake of
attracting contributors. The best kind of open source contributors come
with a purpose, rather than armed with ideas they want others to work on.
On the other hand, if someone is just looking for others to work on
issues they are interested in, that's fine, too. They can, for example,
find Oracle's Java SE Support at [0], or in other ways attempt to
arrange for others to pursue those ideas for them, for example by filing
an issue or RFE on bugs.java.com, or hiring someone to implement/fix it
for them.
Whatever option one picks, please refrain from using this technical
mailing list for non-technical discussions. [2] As a reminder, technical
discussions are about code.
cheers,
dalibor topic
[0]
http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/standard-edition/support/overview/index.html
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC3J2pdVXX0
[2]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/openjfx-dev/2015-December/018320.html
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