User Guide: Libraries vs Core Classes

[eluser]oribani[/eluser]
[quote author="oribani" date="1252650589"]
[quote author="jedd" date="1252647934"]
I imagine your Open Source reference (I'm very much a free software vernacular kind of guy) was uttered in much the same tone that people usually reserve for complaining about how governments never do the right thing AND how they are asked, every four years, to allocate an hour or so of their time to do something vaguely democratic. Not really embracing the classic Greek tradition of being a good citizen, I've often thought.

But thanks for dropping in and spending a few moments to complain about the manual, in any case.[/quote]

No, that wasn't my meaning. I meant to acknowledge that it is indeed my responsibility as much as anyone else's to do something about it. My "sorry that I can't" was sincere.[/quote]

Actually, now that I think about it, I don't find CI to be quite as open as your normal FOSS project. The EllisLab people seem to develop it privately and I am not aware of there being a way for anyone not part of their company/business to join and contribute. I haven't seen a public SCM anywhere, either. Sure, they might accept contributions and patches at their discretion, but this isn't an entirely open or transparent model. I imagine that could come in for a bit of criticism from some people.

I am only just getting started with CI, so I may very well have missed something (or not seen it yet), so please correct me if I'm wrong.