[Web-SIG] wsgiref questions

Chad Whitacre chad at zetaweb.com
Fri Dec 22 23:04:06 CET 2006


Guido,

> Getting another piece of open source code added to Google's
> infrastructure (and learning how to use it) would have been an order
> of magnitude more effort than writing the ~50 lines of code that we
> ended up adding.

That's striking. Out of curiosity, can I ask what exactly the 
bureaucracy looks like for open source code to be used at Google? 
Since we're talking WSGI the learning curve is pretty much nil, 
so the bureaucracy must be heavy. Is it mostly a licensing issue? 
Or is it quality assurance?



chad


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