I have to clarify this Christopher Schmidt píše v Pá 02. 11. 2007 v 18:59 -0400: > > You're comparing a 25 year old project to an 18 month old project and > wondering why we have fewer developers?
no, I was not refering to the number of developers, I was refering to the model, who get's the trunk write access. GRASS also has *much* more lines of code. Given this, I would say, OpenLayers do have much better code/developer ratio, than GRASS will ever have. > If OpenLayers continues to grow > at the same rate it has (gaining 4 new developers, and losing one, over > 18 months) by the time it's as mature as GRASS, we'll have 57 core > committers. Given that, I think the comparison is slightly unfair. > > OpenLayers is a *very young* project. We're still the newest kid on the > block. You can't expect the same from it that you can from a project > like GRASS -- that's just an example of unreasonable expecations. Again, I was not refering to any capabilities, but to development model. I wanted to show, that it is possible to trust more in people. Yes, OpenLayers is young, compared to GRASS. But this is it's advantage: did you ever look at the development documentation of GRASS? There is *none*. Did you try to understand code structure of GRASS? There is *none*. This is result from more then 25 years of development. So "young" in this sense is *big* plus for OpenLayers. OpenLayers's code is great - even non-programmer like me is able to follow it's logic. Well commented, "nice looking" code. GRASS should learn from OpenLayers, how to make the code. > > > In time, the project committers list will grow, as more and more > developers become competent enough with the code base to demonstrate the > ability to become core committers. I agree with this. Everything needs time I hope, we understand each other now. I was not asking, why OpenLayers is not doing something, like any other project. I was just trying to encourage you, if there is someone, who "nearly deserves" trunk write access, she can IMHO have it. More developers - more work done and people will usually not misuse their power. Nothing more, nothing less. Of course, I can not advice PSC, what it should decide. I just wanted to show IMHO working example. Jachym > > Regards, -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://www.les-ejk.cz/pgp/jachym_cepicky-gpg.pub
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