Sakai Development Process
Michael Korcuska,
Sakai Blog,
Mar 18, 2009
"The Sakai Foundation and Board of directors is proposing a new development process for Sakai and would like your feedback." The attached white paper describes the challenge faced by the project. "Sakai, unlike some other open source initiatives, has distinct user and developer groups. Rarely do you see a student, a professor or a researcher write the lines of code necessary to make the product better." Nor do they direct those who code. "The notion of a centralized organization controlling most aspects of Sakai development is not appropriate at this time." So a "product council" is being established to determine whether developed code should be included as part of the final project. Good idea. But choose the members of the product council carefully to avoid gerrymandering and favoritism, and ensure they actually have some sense of end-user needs (but don't simply parrot them). And be careful not to reduce 'selection for inclusion' to 'competition' - it's not a race, it's cooperation.
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