Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2018-04-23 17:02:07 +0000: > On 2018-04-23 12:02:14 -0400 (-0400), Zane Bitter wrote: > [...] > > The main thing I will be looking out for in those cases is that > > the project followed the Four Opens *from the beginning*. Projects > > that start from a code dump are much less likely to attract other > > contributors in my view. Open Source is not a verb. > [...] > > Not to add more noise, but I wanted to mention that I _really_ like > this point in particular. We've definitely seen plenty of > applications for inclusion which started out as an > internally-developed tool behind closed doors somewhere. When they > get "flung over the wall" to the community they tend to flounder in > their attempts to gain traction as properly open projects in their > own right. I don't think we do a good enough job at highlighting > this risk (yet), and will remember to point it out more often when I > spot it in the future. Thanks!
I hope that no one considers any of this "noise," so thank you for highlighting that point. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
