Re: Scripting guidelines

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'll reply to Allon's email separately, but... On 02/21/2014 11:01 AM, David Caro wrote: Leadership in open source communities Posted 8 Feb 2011 by David Nalley (so, not me) :-) I do agree with this. However: people will look to a leader to figure out what should be done, in what priority, and who has the authority to give access to things required to get stuff done. In the absence of an existing hierarchy, you quickly end up in gridlock. The loosely defined common goal is important. Let's take patches as an example. Anyone can write code to implement a feature, fix a bug, whatever - but someone needs to merge the patches, bundle up a release, exercise some level of discretion, and give some guidance as to whether contributed patches will be accepted or not by setting a direction. I don't think that a strict hierarchy is needed. But seeding the group with the people doing the work is important. And that's what we've done, I think - clearly, David, Eyal, Ewoud, Rydekull, Kiril, quaid and myself have the knowledge and do the work (with different levels of skills and knowledge for different pieces of the infrastructure), and get to say who gets access to resources and whether contributions come up to our standards or not. Cheers, Dave. >> As for infra, it is not part of anything we distribute so it is >> not that important, however, standards compliance is something >> that should be considered. >>>>>>>> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Bash_style_guide >>>>> Cheers! >>>>> -- David Caro >>>>> Red Hat S.L. Continuous Integration Engineer - EMEA ENG >>> Virtualization R&D >>>>> Email: dcaro(a)redhat.com Web: www.redhat.com RHT Global #: >>> 82-62605 >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ Infra mailing >>> list Infra(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra >> - -- Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13