On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I disagree because I think that the approach we have taken has made it >> much harder for others to help us. For a project like Sugar, this >> ultimately results is less software of less quality in the same >> timeframe. At least, that's what I take away from the Trac and xmonad >> examples. (When you examine your own "notoriously easy-to-contribute-to >> projects", do your conclusions match mine?) > > That's a tradeoff and a very difficult one. In retrospect I tend to > think we invested too little on enabling contributions. But you should > consider a few of things:
Michael's analysis is useful inasmuch we can read it going forward. As Michael, I wasn't here 2 years ago, but I have been on the ground on many projects under tight deadlines. It's not helpful to pontificate on the decisions I may have made in them. Hindsight is always 20/20. So let's focus on the bits of Michael's notes that can be transformed into praxis going forward -- and let's be thankful that none of the under-pressure decisions have really painted us into a corner (of the "rewrite" kind). Revisionism will have to wait till I get that time-travel machine project finished. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar