Re: [myhdl-list] Example of MyHDL for Python Developers Documentation

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

On 05/03/2012 06:30 PM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
>
>>> My mistake.  It is easy to think of MyHDL as a shared project with
>>> people having shared direction.  And then we get to discuss the shared
>>> direction.  The reality is that each person does whatever they want.
>>> Thank you for clearing up my understanding of open source projects.
>
>> Christopher, it sounds like you are being sarcastic here but if so in fact
>> you really are mistaken about what happens in open source projects with no
>> paid engineers.  The purpose of discussion is only to give a person ideas.
>> That person will then go off and do whatever they want.  And whether that
>> gets back into the main tree is entirely up to the owners of the project,
>> who will do whatever they want with the submission :-).  If they don't take
>> it you may get a fork...
> Actually I was not being sarcastic.  I did not quite understand the
> culture of open source projects.  Thank you for clearing that up.

May I remind you and others that you certainly understand
the "each person does whatever they want" part.

A few weeks ago, you said that you preferred Migen, because you judged that
you only needed concurrent statements. Just a few days ago, you gave
us your final thoughts before moving to Verilog.

I am personally all in favor of "doing whatever you want". But
you can not expect that someone that jumps around has equal
say in the "shared direction" of a project as those who are truly
committed to it. That should be obvious.

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