The issue is are there enough coders with enough spare time to take care of all the feature requests? Since generally they aren't being paid for it (except perhaps those lucky enough to work in a company that encourages them to), they must work on it during their spare time. If they have a family, especially younger kids, that means they may only have a couple of hours after work. In the meantime, feature requests may take a back seat to securing the code or making the existing base more efficient.
Granted, the ideal situation is where the developers have all the time and resources they need to implement those requests, but after a while they begin to get frustrated with endless feature requests they cannot fulfill. Hence, for those looking in from the outside, an attitude of "If you can't code it yourself, don't bug us!" comes across. Dunno ... there may be other issues lurking. There may be genuine bad attitudes as well but I'm betting a lot of it is frustration. Thoughts? Tom K. > I don't agree: it's an attitude issue. > > We don't need money to LISTEN what professional users have to say. If > the problem was "We don't have photographers come here and work with > us for free" I would agree with you, but the problem is "They come > here and want to be part of it, but they are rushed out because they > don't want or know how to program". > > If there are coders willing to work for free, what makes you think > that there are no users willing to create a focus group for free? > > 2008/3/14, Thomas King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Last point I want to make: one of the HUGE problems with free software >> > is the fact that it doesn't care much for some "details" as >> > proprietary software. Take Adobe Photoshop as an example: they don't >> > just have people who programs in their teams, they have photographers >> > that just sit there and say "this is important, this is irrelevant, >> > photographers work this way, photographers work that way". I've been >> > for a while in The Gimp forums, where the ruling philosophy is "If you >> > can't contribute with code, don't bug us with Gimp should have this >> > and Gimp should have that" - and that explains why so few >> > photographers use The Gimp. >> >> >> Good point but be aware Photoshop gets a paycheck regularly. GIMP gets >> donations. The disparity between the two amounts is HUGE, so Photoshop does >> have >> the "luxury" (albeit a business requirement) to have focus groups and such. >> Projects like the GIMP have no such and have a majority of volunteers coding >> with professionals that drop in code on occasion. True, GIMP did have a big >> boost a few years ago when some companies took interest and funded some >> features, but overall that tends to be the exception. >> >> So, are you saying you are ready to bankroll the features requested and pay >> for >> hosting the focus groups? ;) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cinelerra mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >> > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
