花园和赛马

这篇博客的概念来自于最近的一些讨论，我已经收到了开源社区，但花园和赛马的概念是从另一个谁拥有惊人的技能是把我的思维正确的观点工艺类比。我感谢这个匿名人在今天的博客帮助。当一个已经存在的功能的新的实现被提交给开源社区，社区可以采取几种措施;不过，我希望把重点放在两个这样的选择：1，现有的实现比较新的版本，并希望使基于性能，代码质量，维修能力等，而不是根据谁写的代码的决定。我把这个赛马2.允许新的实现共存与模块在以前的实现有一个通用的API集，允许开源技术的消费者选择他们想要的实现。我把这个花园。在赛马，实现相互竞争发展的社区内，一个是选择在其他基于技术优点或政治（的东西，应该不惜一切代价避免）。这个概念似乎不够合理;但是它限制贡献者的量给定项目作为唯一的解决方案将被选中，其他作者将有待着。在花园里，多个实现的项目，允许各派遣国继续工作，并促进其变化范围内提供。 As long as the various offerings all work from a specific API then consumers are given more choice. Of course, the argument against this can be that having multiple groups working on the same problem within a project is a waste of resources. So, why am I even writing on this – consider the case of an open source project with various corporate entities submitting implementations that support their ecosystem solutions. As a community manager, I want many ecosystem partners in my community to expand the opportunity for my open source solution to be adopted. A horse race approach limits the size of my ecosystem and turns away possible customers, as the losing implementation will not be included. In the garden approach, all ecosystem partners are welcome to the project and given space for their solution which allows them to reach out to more customers and expand the overall project’s customer base. As I said in my last post, more and more corporations are taking part in open source and finding a way to ensure they can actively participate is critical for the entire open source movement and following the horse race model will jeopardize the current opportunity for open source to gain further momentum as the standard methodology for creating software. Readers – what do you think? Am I missing something fundamental in this comparison? Do you have examples of communities following either process? As a final note, I am attending OSCON next week in Portland, OR and have my handy Flip video camera with me. I will film several short interviews with various open source projects that I find interesting and post to my blog. If you have any project that you are looking for more details on, let me know and I can visit their both.