The only part of this that I see as relevant to us is setting of
development goals. And we've already discussed this ad nauseum on the
Hackers list and AFAIK have an initial plan (the enhanced TODO), lacking
only the resources to implement it this month.
Almost the whole thing is relevant :). Keep in mind that I am not saying
that it is negative. For example the NetBSD core is obviously cranked,
where our Core tends to stay out of the way. That is a positive.
On the other hand, we do suffer from the locked project problem (the
recent recursive query debacle is a perfect example).
We do have portions of a meritocracy in place but we are by no means
mature in that arena. Likely because of our lock problem ;)
We are also better at having cross over between sub projects so that
many people who are the same people are part of many projects. This
allows communication to flow between sub projects.
Not perfect of course :) but better then many I see.
Another odd issue, which may or may not be a positive is that we don't
have a public leader. We have half a dozen people (less I think) that
are very, very public (I am not talking mailing list public).
Anyway, the post as I said was for provoking thought, not for
antagonistic measures. I saw good and bad and thought it would be good
for everyone to review as we are as a project dealing with some of our
own growth problems.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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