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

[Christopher F. <chr...@gm...>]

On 5/3/12 4:03 PM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> 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.
>

Amen to that!