WordPress Openness (was Re: [wp-hackers] UI development for 1.6)

[Bjorn Wijers]

Usually I just lurk 'cause my own project demands too much time of me to 
fully engange in WP discussion although I do glance over it, but I had 
to react to Tarique.

Tarique,

Forking should be the *LAST* option available for any developer, because 
if everybody just forked at any disagreement we wouldn't have such a 
thriving Free/Libre Open Source Software community. Please try always to 
resolve these matters by discussion and hopefully some form of 
consensus. This will ultimately benefit more people than just forking.


just the 2 cents of a lurker...

grtz
BjornW

Dr Tarique Sani wrote:
> Mike Little wrote:
> 
>> On 23/06/05, Dr Tarique Sani <tarique at sanisoft.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
> <snip>
> 
>>> You may not have commit access BUT no one prevents you from writing code
>>> - if your code is better people will use more of that
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> <snip>
> 
>> You've missed my point. I don't have any great code to contribute. My
>> point is about the lack of communication and discussion,
>>  
>>
> Mike - you missed my point on the Spirit of Open Source - if you feel 
> that WP development is a Cathedral then Open your own Bazaar - the GPL 
> provides you exactly that freedom.
> 
> Forcing a developer to discuss his actions is IMHO taking away his 
> freedom to develop the code as he wants to.
> 
> So the bottom line is Fork if you can else Forget it!
> 
> And yes forking is good competition and in true spirit of Open Source
> 
> Cheers
> Tarique
>