Forwarded conversation Subject: gdamore wishes he knew what would motivate more developers to work on illumos bugs.... ------------------------
From: Gleb Kursou <kursou.g...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:24 PM To: disc...@lists.illumos.org, opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Cc: garr...@damore.org Garrett, so you asked this question: "gdamore wishes he knew what would motivate more developers to work on illumos bugs...." I keep it short - and public - to start a discussion about how the Illumos gate should be managed. I - and many other people - think the biggest problem is *your* own behavior. This can be solved but requires a huge leap from you *first*. You need to work on your behavior towards people. I've collected a few points from yesterdays Unix user group meeting in Munich, Germany where the participants think changes are mandatory. 1. You seem to be treating people like a dictator, not as a first among equals. This is discouraging for people new to your project who are not familiar with you. You should work on this. 2. You are what opensource management book call a "tree squatter". You want to be in control of everything, even the smallest detail. Consider *delegating* control of parts of the source tree to other people, such as the experts who work on that particular code. 3. You wrote that Illumos will be a meritocracy. You should live this meritocracy then. Delegate control to the experts. You can choose who should the experts be but you have to delegate control to them. 4. You rant in abrasive, pejorative and discouraging ways about other people's code without even attempting to learn how the code works and you try to dictate a design without listening to the people working on this code. Consider listen to people and learn. First. Think. Ask. And then you can rant. 5. You are unable to make compromises between conflicting goals. Consider compromises. Consider others had to make compromises and accept them as reality. 6. Your goal should be to build a community but your behavior has created the absolute opposite: Almost no one wants to contribute to Illumos. If you think you can't build the community yourself find someone who has experience with building communities. It's no shame to let others help you. Gleb ---------- From: Gleb Kursou <kursou.g...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:25 PM To: disc...@lists.illumos.org, opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Cc: garr...@damore.org These two books might be helpful for you: The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, Jono Bacon, ISBN: 978-0596156718 Open Source Software: Implementation and Management, Paul Kavanagh, Digital Press, 2004, ISBN: 1555583202 Gleb _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
