Re: [Firebird-docs] Re: Three Questions

[Pavel C. <pc...@at...>]

Hi all,

Only for record and to clear some mud water...

Everyone has fairly much free range within the Firebird project, the  
main idea being if you think it's right just go ahead and do it. No 
orders from some artificial authority. There is very simple formal 
procedure for any work -> Explain what you're going to do, did or 
doing in appropriate mailing list or forum. If it affects others then 
inform others in advance and wait a little to receive any feedback. 
That is, the legitimacy of any work / action is confirmed in public 
forum. Size of the audience asked for approval should be in direct 
proportions to importance / impact of work for / on others. But final 
decision is always made by actual workers (with all consequences 
:-), not by lurkers or by people occupied with work outside the 
scope of discussed issue. The dead-ends and bad decisions are 
corrected when necessary on the way. Open Source projects are 
very dynamic beasts, and we always throw out code, work, doc, 
web pages etc. if it doesn't work or doesn't fulfils actual needs. It's 
famous Permanent Reconstruction / Rewriting / Reengineering of 
all thriving open source projects :-)

So, do whatever you'll see fit to reach your goal. I think that you're 
on path to deliver something that we all badly need. ANY work that 
move us a little bit closer to the final goal will be appreciated and 
remembered.

Best regards
-- Pavel Cisar

Firebird - the most addictive database
http://firebird.sourceforge.net