On 5/16/07, Bear Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Torsten Curdt wrote: > On 15.05.2007, at 23:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm interested in merging some earlier archival work (in C) into commons >> compress and would like to know who to coordinate with. The changes >> will >> be... substantial... and I'll probably just fork the project for now, >> with >> a goal of merging in late summer. > > I was trying to add a new archiver implementation a few months ago. > Let's put it that way - substantial changes are good :) > > ...but I think leaving and just coming back with the new finished code > base is not really open-source'ish. If you want to attract some people > having discussions and incremental code contributions would be better. > (My 2 cents) As I recall somebody did a study of successful open source project and discovered a common element was a good seed implementation and only a few people with a strong, shared vision. Otherwise projects tended to get mired down in a grey ooze. Fortunately it's easy to figure out what a good seed would be in this case -- the interfaces and a few sample (and simple!) archive formats.
Getting from 0 to few is tradtionally the problem for compress :) Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
