That's fine, but that is not what Jani was talking about. And I am curious, what do all the developers who have no interest (or no experience) with one particular topic like this do in those 3 months?
I think people want to apply traditional software development methodologies to open source development. Jani wants a dictator who will set the rules and tell people what to work on. Others want refined roadmaps, release schedules, etc. I think you are missing as key concept here. People volunteer their time and effort to work on things that personally interest them. If someone comes along wanting to work on X he does not want somebody telling him to go work on Y instead and have it done by Friday. That is simply not how volunteer-driven collaborative software development works. The challenge as a project grows is how to keep people interested and contributing while still keeping some sort of direction in mind. The bigger things get, the less laser-like this direction can be. It has long since become a wide-beam flash light. We'd like to try to avoid it shining off into all directions at once and at least direct the light somewhat towards one direction, but I don't think it is realistic to expect more than that. The single-developer laser-like direction just won't happen. Writing roadmaps is fine, but unless you find developers willing to enthusiastically put their names on each bullet point of the roadmap, it means nothing. -Rasmus On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > A roadmap marked in stone is going to alienate people and make them > > less likely to go exploring down roads that whoever wrote the roadmap > > didn't think of. > > Roadmaps can be changed. Or be short-termed. I think it'd be nice to > have a "roadmap" like: "In the next three months, we'll focus on the > development of a unified XML/XSLT extension." > > -- > Sebastian Bergmann > http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ > > Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://wishlist.sebastian-bergmann.de/ > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
