[zeromq-dev] EncryptedSocket added to pyzmq in branch

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Burak Arslan <burak.arslan at arskom.com.tr> wrote:

> but, i insist that this should be removed from the official pyzmq package.

:-)

This goes into the "I'd love feature X!" bucket.  The response is,
"Great idea, I'm looking forwards to seeing how you do this".

As Martin says, the positive side of investing hugely into an open
source project, as Brian has done with pyzmq, is that you can do
absolutely whatever you like with it.  It's pointless and somewhat...
tactless... to demand anything from people who give you stuff for
free.  Suggesting it's impossible sometimes works, asking nicely
sometimes works, offering money sometimes works, but strong demands
are pretty sure to be ignored.

How this works with open source: if you don't like the maintainers'
decisions and can't live with them, you fork the project, try to
convince people that your fork is better (and that means investing
significantly and over a long period of time, not simply offering a
cloned git with some stuff removed), and by weight of popular demand,
getting your fork either accepted as dominant, or merged happily back
into the 'main' version.

Far better, however, is to step back from demands and principles, and
look at what the authors are trying to achieve (which in this case is
encryption of traffic) and put your energy into helping them solve it
in a better way.

Cheers
-
Pieter Hintjens
iMatix - www.imatix.com