Hi Andrew, and yet another separated reply.
> Another place this came up recently, IMO, was the request that came in > about some students offering to work on one of the todo list items. In > offering suggestions about the best one for them to work on can anyone > say what particular goal, use case for the package, is met by which of > these todo items and therefore which yields the most return to projects > going forward to meet those goals. I disagree here. IMO, in an open source project, a big part of the (code) contributions outside the big companies paying developers is having fun, or own needs. People writing code in their spare time usually (well, often, at least) do this to scratch their own itch, not to contribute the largest possible return value to the project. This is fine, as it still sums up to great products, but it also means you cannot bait (a certain class of) contributors with abstract values such as "benefit to the project". Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
