[ogb-discuss] Project creation guidelines

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, John Plocher wrote:
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>> I don't think this applies because a not-officially-blessed coding effort
>> doesn't, at inception, seek to integrate. (If or when they do, then I would
>> think they'd need to seek normal community endorsement.)
>
> This implies a development pattern of
>
>    Do all the work, and when it is complete, start engaging
>    with the community.  Since all the development decisions
>    have already been made, there is no place for the community
>    to inject its requirements, concerns, contributions, etc.

That does strike me as a valid concern, but it seems to me
that the policy/process could be designed to take concerns
like that into account.

> I'd like to bias against that if possible, especially since
> this model /seems/ to fit some undesirable behaviors as well:
>
>   "some team at Sun did [a bunch of work] behind closed doors
>   and now wants to expose it read-mostly to the OpenSolaris
>   community so they can integrate".

I don't believe non-conformist behavior is an indicator of
non-open behavior. (And certainly any coding effort that
requests and recieves opensolaris.org resources should be
expected to do its development openly.)

Eric