re[2]: Concern about the future of Apache

[Rich Persaud <pe...@b8d.net>]

Those evaluating re-orgs should revisit Christopher Alexander's "Pattern Language", the inspiration for Gabriel's "Patterns of Software" and OO "design patterns":

>From http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/patternsframegreen.htm?/leveltwo/../apl/twopanelnlb.htm :
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"The language begins with patterns that define towns and communities. These patterns can never be designed or built in one fell swoop - but patient piecemeal growth, designed in such a way that every individual act is always helping to create or generate these larger global patterns, will, slowly and surely, over the years, make a community that has these global patterns in it."
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Social space is not a bug.   In the long-term, social identity is polymorphic with respect to semantic identity.  Flip through a few centuries of history to find supporting evidence.   Consider Apache's external identity, relative to all other open-source projects.  Which is more stable: semantic or social identity?  An internal re-org may reduce semantic learning (for newbies or external groups) at the expense of mutilating social boundaries.  Or not.  I don't have enough history in Apache to know the answer.  But social space matters.

SNA reading: http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000006.php

Rich
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|  I'm aware of that... what does that have to do with the message I
|  forwarded or the proposed reorganization which makes all jakarta
|  projects top level projects and phases jakarta out (basically)...

|  -Andy

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