--- In [email protected], "Tomasz Janeczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... adding 2 more developers for core development > would SLOW DOWN the development
Depends what is meant by "core" (IMO). I think there are dozens of UI oriented (or other) "nice-to-haves" that would really save hundreds and ultimately thousands of hours on the user side that will never be prioritized for implementation while AB has a single, sole developer. Faced with a practical hard-limit of, say, 2500 developer-hours per year, there are many useful potential enhancements that won't ever make the cut - and for perfectly defensible reasons - given the assumption of fixed maximum effort. Even worse, of course, if the developer-hours per year drops off for unexpected reasons. IMO, it would be possible for another developer(s) to add specific, helpful functionality without "diluting" core architecture extension and design work. Anything that saves time for users is leveraged across thousands of users. It is unfortunate, IMO, whenever thousands of users endure daily hassle or expense-of-time for something that could have been corrected at the source with, say, a dozen (or 2) hours of developer effort. The experience of open source (in general) proves that multiple developers can do alot of good for a product by working on different items in different areas. I'm not suggesting AB go public open source. I'm only saying that the same tools (revision control systems, etc.) can be used for a business's development to enable contributions by multiple developers to be made to great benefit, with minimal (but non-zero!) disruption, under terms set by the business in question. Anyway, those are my thoughts, and they are all offered in general terms. Some things do go undone under the current model, and certainly some of what goes undone would be very nice to have. Personally, I think it's a subject worth considering. Nevertheless, AB remains the single best value in TA software available. (The new Optimizer plug-in capability is FANTASTIC, but that's another post :^).
