Listener wrote:
1. Someone at SlimDevices needs to take full responsibility for making
Slimserver a stable, robust, fully tested and fully documented
software application.
You do realize that almost all software engineers are only interested
in cool new stuff and hate boring stuff like documentation and
regression testing. In general, the good ones are rare and expensive.
The folks you can get are usually not good enough to do it well.
This is a hard problem, not just for Slim.
Its kinda like trying to get good developers for a Cobol
accounting system. There is a need, everyone sees it, but
managing it takes a huge amount of effort.
4. Slim Devices has to commit to providing stable, clearly documented
external intewrfaces. And they need to document the SS source code.
You won't get quality, fully implemented and fully tested extensions
unless Slim Devices does its part.
Seems to me that Slim is mostly a hardware company. Focus is
critical for a small company. I don't think you are likely to
find that open source community and corporate standard source code
commenting is compatible.
More importantly, I'm not sure what you hope to get with this.
Strikes me as sort of a list nailed to the cathedral door.
I'm all for freedom of expression, but I like 99% of what
my slimserver has delivered for more than two years now.
I'm not at all sure I'd be happy if Slim did what you suggested
if the result was raising the cost of the SqueezeBox from $300 to
say $600. or worse, up in the price of packaged music server
hardware, which start at $1000 and go up fast.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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