[whatwg] A New Way Forward for HTML5 (revised)
Sam Ruby
rubys at intertwingly.net
Mon Jul 27 05:34:35 PDT 2009
Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
> The lesson I would learn from open source is that finding people willing
> to do useful work is much more important than tools or project
> organization. While good projects strive to refine their process, my
> experience is that people who start out by
> asking project-wide tools or process changes to enable their
> contribution rarely turn into valuable contributors. On the other hand,
> people who start out by making substantive contributions within the
> existing process often have excellent insights into how to improve the
> process and tools from there. That's not to say this is universal - just
> what my experience has been in ~14 years of open source development on
> various projects.
+1
> Regards,
> Maciej
P.S. My experience (with Decimal) is that the development model for
Linux and HTML5 are well more open than WebKit. YMMV.
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