On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Brian McCallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is a great thing to do, I just want to caution against "A group > of us at Google have decided..." as the perception that someone has to be a) > at google, and b) in the right conversation to make these decisions will > push away external contributors. Is frustrating at times, but when, in > situations like shindig, a project is being dominated by folks at one > company it matters. > > The best rule of thumb I know is to never make decisions offline or via a > backchannel. The phrase "a group of us at $VENDOR decided" just sets off > alarm bells in apache-land.
I'd like to clarify a few things: David and his "group" are not affiliated in any way with Google's engineers contributing to Shindig. They're a completely separate group of developers who hadn't spoken with myself or any of the other folks contributing to Shindig before posting to the list. Leading in with "A group of us at Google have decided" was a mistake--it *did* give a totally wrong impression. Saying "Some friends and I have decided to implement FOO using Abdera." would have been much more appropriate. So I don't think there's a problem here--just a misunderstanding. The folks at Google who are contributing to Shindig understand the importance of discussing and deciding Shindig related matters on shindig-dev. -Fitz
