+1 Less words, more work. El 27/06/11 7:07, Keith Curtis escribió: > In order to succeed, a mass movement must develop at the earliest > moment a compact corporate organization and a capacity to integrate > all comers. > > —Eric Hoffer, American philosopher > > This discussion is interesting but it reminds me of people > re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Or, perhaps a better analogy > is where there are two battleships, one is 30x bigger and the other is > undermanned. In fact, there is only a skeleton crew so if there is a > problem in many areas of the ship, there is no one able to fix it. > Meanwhile, some of the crew are sitting on deck chairs discussing how > they'd like a better battleship, but they are at sea so it is not > possible now. > > I believe the best way to ensure TDF's success is for you to find a > crew to fix all of these as fast as possible: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks > > Forks often take years to get going because they take years to get a > large enough of a team. That is a random list, but the sooner you can > fix those, the sooner you can fix other things including font > features. Fixing bugs is the way to be able to write features. People > can work anywhere they want, but that is the front door, and evidence > you need more. People with expertise already are valuable. It is good > is that you have people who are able to mentor others. Some forks > didn't even have that. You need to find enough people so you have > expertise over every line, which I don't think you have today. > > I also hope there is a crew hacking ribbon-like UIs in Python, one > working on server and web features, etc. If you want to succeed in a > decade, and you are mostly going to be volunteers, you need many, > focused on things that improve the product today. > > You can keep a positive attitude by remembering there is another > battleship that is 10x undermanned than you ;-) It says OpenOffice, > etc. on the side, but that is not the most important consideration. > > Kind regards, > > -Keith > http://keithcu.com/ >
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