Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact community-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list community@apache.org Received: (qmail 22393 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2002 21:34:08 -0000 Received: from mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au (210.49.20.148) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 30 Oct 2002 21:34:08 -0000 Received: from brainstem.dyndns.org (c17243.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.246.103]) by mail024.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9ULYCs16695 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:34:12 +1100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Peter Donald To: community@apache.org Subject: Re: ASF Membership Nomination Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:41:31 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <2E1D8508-EC31-11D6-802A-003065F93D3A@topsail.org> In-Reply-To: <2E1D8508-EC31-11D6-802A-003065F93D3A@topsail.org> X-Wisdom: A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210310841.31679.peter@apache.org> X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 04:58, Chuck Murcko wrote: > I would ask if it has ever been asked if there is a downside to total > openness. > > I would also say that my experience has been that total openness on > these sorts of projects has resulted merely in all the private > discussion going out of band, so almost everyone gets to feel equal in > their exclusion. Thats pretty much how it happens in projects I am involved in (which are = at=20 Jakarta). --=20 Cheers, Peter Donald ------------------------------------------------------- To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme=20 excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the=20 enemy's resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu, 300 B.C. -------------------------------------------------------