On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:18 -0400, Mercer, Jeff wrote:
I suspect that's something Renaud hopes would actually happen, i.e.
this change may inspire people to contribute major code. Often, folks
who are capable of contributions won't bother if someone else is
already doing it. In other words, Renaurd could be considered a victim
of his own productivity, :)
All you can do is *suspect* as there was no call for participants, no
public shouting that more input is needed to Nessus. The decision was
made by Tenable, apparently without consulting the people they wanted to
help them. Shouldn't the first step have been to ask for help if help
was what was required ?
You'll notice that there are now a couple of groups considering forking
the code, because they feel it's important to them. They *might* have
contributed rather than forking if this had been requested of them. Then
again they might not have, the point is there was no attempt from
Tenable to ask for what they wanted.
Merely being GPL is not a enough to create a successful OSS project,
you have to invite the help. Some OSS projects don't like outside help
and actively reject anything that comes their way through arrogance, I
don't believe Nessus has, but unless there is an open invitation and a
plea when code is scarce people won't know there is a shortfall. I'm on
the User/Devel/Plugin/Announce mailing lists and didn't notice any
pleas for help.
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