Sean M. Pappalardo schrieb: > Dare I ask: what is Heroine Virtual's reluctance to simply being the lead > contributor to an otherwise community project?
Actually, no one of us really knows why HV behaves the way he/she/it does. At least that behaviour was consistent over the years ;-) But if you step back and reconsider matters, you may realise that it's not that easy. "being the lead" and "community project" bears an inherent inner contribution. Either you decide, or you strive at an consensus with others. The tricky part comes with the fact, that for every non-trivial development, there isn't THE right way to do it. Typically you're facing a situation where you have 10% knowledge at best. So what to do? Simple, you rely on your gut feeling. Eventually, after everything has been worked out, you may be so fortunate as to verify the prediction of your gut feelings, but usually that happens months or years later, if at all. Thus, every good developer has extremely well developed gut feelings about how to approach any given problem at hand. And now comes the tricky part: How will you handle the situation, when there are other developers -- more or less experienced -- which want to address the same problem with an approach which is different to what you have in mind in almost every respect?? And of course, that other approach is also based on gut feeling. See, there is a real problem involved with that. The more knowingly and dedicated a developer becomes, the larger gets this problem, and goodwill helps only to a very limited extent. Greetings, Hermann Vosseler _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
