Mark,
> My frustration level often kills any desire to contribute to open
> source. Sometimes, I think that open source is doomed. The various
> projects I track and use are very frustrating, they remind me of
> dysfunctional engineering departments in huge companies, it is very hard
> to positively discuss any new ideas. The first response is always some
> variation on "no."
Well, if you weren't a regular I'd be more encouraging. But you already
know how things work here, so we can give you a hard time. I'll point
out the year-long argument over the newsysviews for the contributors, the
two-year long process for 2PC, etc.
Sometimes you can just throw stuff up on this forum and people will say
"wow, cool, I could really use something that does that." and you're off
and flying. Other times, though, it's hard for people on this list to see
how a vague proposal would be useful, so you need to have a prototype that
*shows* how useful it is.
As a parallel, I personally didn't see the utility of DTrace until I saw
Brian Cantrell give a demo of the full feature set. If you just read the
spec, it's hard to see how it's an improvement over oprofile.
> Maybe it is that the whiteboard engineering discussion process doesn't
> translate well to this medium.
Nope.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco