[ros-dev] What Happened

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Rick Langschultz wrote:

> Creating a private mailing list  
> not available to the community restricts information from getting to  
> developers that want to continue to develop reactos, whether they  
> commit or not. 

The private mailing list has nothing to do with development and certainly
contains no information that could be deemed useful towards the development
of ROS.
It's just somewhere developers can discuss sensitive issues without worrying
about setting a an exponential bomb off.

All projects have their problems. It's much better for both the project and
community as a whole if these problems aren't broadcast worldwide. We used
to use personal emails or MSN, this just takes over that role making it
easier and quicker.

I'll give you an example, take the recent allegations of leaked MS source
code in the ReactOS repository. These allegations completely were untrue,
however as soon as this found it's way onto the public mailing list, drastic
and maybe over reactive actions were taken.
This email has single handidly stopped all development of ReactOS for the
past 2 weeks and has the potential of holding the project up for a year or
two. It's safe to say the project has been in trouble of dying off
completely.

Now, if this mail was received privately, we could have dealt with the issue
internally and avoided all this mess. Development would have continued
whilst we resolved any potential issues. For the community and the project
as a whole, which would you consider to be the better option?

All projects have their problems, you just never hear about them because
they aren't made public. There is nothing to be gained by hanging out your
dirty linen in public.

Ged.





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