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Hi Thomas and all,
I find this discussion extremely interesting.
How much Control does Eclipse need to avoid falling apart as it
grows?
I created a little poll for this:
Looking forward to interesting
results,
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project
Lead, DSDP PMC Member
I miss the good old days when Open Source communities were based on
the contributions that they got, where the contributors were heroes, and the
quality of the resulting product were the product of their goodwill and skill.
I find that participating in the Eclipse release train nowadays involves
efforts that are somewhat overwhelming and that I, instead of adding valid
functionality to the areas where I contribute, am forced to implement
requirements that brings much less benefit to the intended user base.
I
think that when a central management stipulates this many requirements for
individual projects, there's a high risk that all the fun is taken out of it.
As a contributor, and even as a project manager, I loose control. I no longer
decide what's important in my own domain. I no longer prioritize what to do
with the time I spend on the projects. Someone else does. A lot of the
motivation is thereby lost, replaced with a whip that forces me to comply with
a strict set of rules. Was that the intention? I don't think so.
Don't
get me wrong, I can see that there are benefits in having a common set of
requirements. I just think it's a tad too much now.
Regards,
Thomas
Hallgren
Schaefer, Doug wrote:
It'll be interesting to see what happens when we get to
the Release Review and find few of us actually did all the must dos.
Unfortunately, the must do's didn't come with additional contributions and I
can't seem to pull any out of my, uh, never mind. I see Doom ahead unless a
Christmas miracle happens.
Doug.
Hi Team, with respect to the questioning of the capabilities as a "must
do":
http://ahuntereclipse.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-just-dont-have-any-capabilities.html
and
further comments should go on https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252807
Cheers...
Anthony
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Anthony Hunter mailto:anthonyh@xxxxxxxxxx
Software
Development Manager: Eclipse Open Source Components
IBM Rational
Software: Aurora / GEF / GMF / Modeling Tools
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