[Ironruby-core] Public versus private discussion and community momentum

[M. David Peterson]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:17:17 -0600, Nicolai Moles-Benfell  
<n.molesbenfell at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is Microsoft's first open source project, as a developer
> interested in contributing to IronRuby I am a little hesitant of this
> as I see a risk that the development will not be community based and
> therefore would be a bad investment of my time...

You're waxing philosophical.  From my own view point, as a community  
member and contributor I want to gain the benefits obtained froma kick  
a$$ implementation of the Ruby language that takes full advantage of all  
the .NET platform has to offer.  The fact that MSFT might want to have  
strategic planning meetings regarding their focus moving forward is their  
business.

 From your viewpoint it seems you want something different.  A  
community-based group hug, or something.  Fair enough.  We're looking for  
two different things.  But I do believe it's completely fair and  
reasonable for MSFT to expect the ability to hold private strategy and  
code planning meetings.

Here's the thing: If you don't trust MSFT, don't contribute any code.   
Personally I do trust MSFT.  At least enough to be willing to contribute  
code w/o the need of being a part of every conversation that takes place  
regarding the past, present, and/or future of this project.

Charlie asked for others to weigh in.  I did.  Maybe I stand alone in my  
viewpoint, but this is how I see things.

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/M:D

M. David Peterson
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