[ogb-discuss] Community Facilitators

[Shawn Walker]

On 02/10/2007, Keith Wesolowski <Keith.Wesolowski at sun.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:02:24PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> > Considering the excruciatingly slow process of making contributions to
> > some of the projects here, I don't see what would motivate folks.
> >
> > It seems relevant to me that the projects with the lowest barriers to
> > contribution (such as the spec files repository that the desktop and
> > sfw communities appear to share) appear to have the highest number of
> > external contributions.
>
> I think it depends what you mean by barrier.  Is the requirement for
> code review a barrier?  Is technical complexity?  Absolutely.  SFE is

Sorry, I should have been clearer. Contribution review isn't a
problem; I wholeheartedly support that. The main problem is that some
projects have processes that (apparently) can only be performed by Sun
folks which brings us back to resource limitations. It's a vicious
cycle.

> All that doesn't mean the contribution process elsewhere isn't
> needlessly cumbersome.  I've suggested several times that SCAs should
> be eliminted, for instance.  We all know that b.o.o is a joke and that

I have no problem with the SCA, I signed one, it was a one time thing
and not that big of a deal. I think it's entirely necessary given the
copyright fiascos that have been going on in the various open source
projects "out there" right now.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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