How long the community will support the deliberate decision of not answering to a major contributor? How do you expect contribution of large open source companies to this project avoiding political or technical conflicts (or both)?
Focusing only on bug-driven development and ingoring valid questions with a kind of systematic corporative silence is not the way to go. And if the managerial staff decide to continue ignoring, sooner or later you would have two problems to resolve: The unsolved pending questions plus the management of the emergence of social subsystems (if the number of contributors increases) without enough coordinators for pivots, because of the limited size of contributors for a niche technology like Smalltalk. Censorship of uninformed newcomers is common and an implicit norm, censorship of a known member is disgusting. Such attitude is limiting involvement and participation in the community, because implicitly define clear roles which affects the discussion space and group dynamics. Finally, I do not want a holy war here, I just want responses without personal attacks and without quoting out of context fallacies. Cheers, Hernán 2009/10/12 keith <keith_hod...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > On 12 Oct 2009, at 17:45, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > >> Mike is it related to the testServer publihsed on squeaksource? >> Because ESUG will also sponsor a summer talk project on the topics. >> So if we could join forces it would be great. >> >> For the server this is not clear yet. Internally we have our server >> that we could use but >> we have to check the security. >> >> I'm waiting that marcus arrives to check that with him and damien. >> >> Stef > > Why why why why why is compete more attractive than contributing. > > Let me explain.... > > Step 1. We would like a test server. > Step 2. Is anyone working on this already? > Step 3. Would anyone like to collaborate to specify and work on a test > server? > > Bob is already written it just needs configuring, TestReporter is > already written, > and has been available for 3 years or more. > > The same thing is happening again and again and again. > > Why did anyone even start working on Metacello when Sake/Packages was > already there a year before hand. > > Why are the steps above not the default way of working for the > community? It is beyond incredulity. > > Keith > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
