-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:18:19PM +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote: > Leonard Ritter wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >>there isn't a single project that > >>couldn't use a at least a few more developers. every single project: > >>Rosegarden, MuSE, Lilypond, Aldrin, > > > >now hold it there! i don't want any of your dirty fingers on my precious > >code. > > > >no, actually, i think we are doing fine. manpower doesn't necessarily > >mean faster progress. if we just keep stealing from each others codebase > >(that's what gpl is about, dammit), each one of our little projects will > >turn out just fine. > > > > In our attempt to help fulfilling 'the need for every single possible > hardware interface to work', we could use some helping hands. I'm pretty > confident that we're better off with a lot of (possibly dirty-handed) > coders + some good maintainers than with the current situation where 3 > spare-time coders do it all. The current situation does help for > satisfying my personal need for eternal glory and unlimited kudos... > > We should keep in mind that we're all doing it for fun (I hope) and that > most of us don't make a living out of this. Concentration of these > spare-time development efforts would be nice, but it doesn't seem to be > working that way. > > My personal feeling is that the initial effort to learn somebody else's > code is the main bottleneck towards entering a project. Sometimes people > think they can do it better, or that it will be easier to do a complete > rewrite. And sometimes they are right (e.g. ZynAddSubFX). > Exactly. A good discussion, but this thread is ultimately as old as Free Software. I think this sums it up pretty well: http://goatchowder.wordpress.com/2006/04/09/in-praise-of-cadt/ Which is a response to the classic: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF4+fye8HF+6xeOIcRAiHiAKC4bpRzoZKiSNGAX6ZJxZYs8T6ijQCg3+Yn 9AYS2LJDsjh2HZjI/wii9Ac= =2OiM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
