- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:34:35 -0400
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > The lesson I would learn from open source is that finding people willing > to do useful work is much more important than tools or project > organization. While good projects strive to refine their process, my > experience is that people who start out by > asking project-wide tools or process changes to enable their > contribution rarely turn into valuable contributors. On the other hand, > people who start out by making substantive contributions within the > existing process often have excellent insights into how to improve the > process and tools from there. That's not to say this is universal - just > what my experience has been in ~14 years of open source development on > various projects. +1 > Regards, > Maciej P.S. My experience (with Decimal) is that the development model for Linux and HTML5 are well more open than WebKit. YMMV.
Received on Monday, 27 July 2009 12:35:24 UTC