Michael Herger;207374 Wrote: > > That's beside a point. Point is that in professionaly organized > > development process user can not bend the developer over. > > Former SlimDevices imho wouldn't be where they are today if they had > followed pure old school "professional development" processes. Does > this > allow for open source at all? > > Michael
I agree with you that open source concept has brought SD (among other things - don't forget they have superb hardware product :) ) where they are today. However, I don't agree that open source necessarilly needs to allow for slopy, hectic and out of control. Open source means that everybody who wants and knows how, can participate in the development of something they share a common interest about. Nice. Unfortunately, it is in human nature that people want to do 'cool' stuff and tend to skip on 'chores'. Now, since open source has a very vague concept of responsibility (after all you can not fire poor performer and get him bad references, so that he needs to pay off his mortgage delivering pizza), there is a point in the concept where the whole thing start suffering from being the monument to its creators rather than useful piece of code. In my opinion, SD needs to recognise that that moment is just around the corner, and that they need to start streamlining some of their proceses. I think, release mangement and quality control will have to go through serious rework. Here's why. I have never heard that comunity gets to vote about the fixing a bug. Bug is a bug and it needs to be worked out immediately - it's not a matter of democracy (of course, bugs can have thier priority). And then, in order to get a fix for your bug, you need to keep upgrading nighties, even though, there are no guaranties that new bugs have not been introduced while some new cool feature has been implemented in the same build. Think for a moment how would it be if your cell phone service couldn't reach 911, and the customer representative told you something like ... yap, we have a problem with that, but in the meantime we've just implemented that feature where you can watch Britney S. shawing her head - real time on you cell. Oh, and BTW, if enought people complain and vote for it, we'll be reinstating 911 service some time later this month ... So, since you participate in the development, let me ask you a question - is there something like 'regression testing cases' that are executed over the software everytime the nightly release is cutt or at least everytime before the version is made 'stable'? Back to your other post - some people whining about compilation albums trying to push their special needs. Right now, if I choose to have my albums listed by Album Artist, I have tracks written by various composers, like Baroque Favorites, listed by main peformer - 'album Artist', say Glenn Gould. Fine. However, that also means that Beethowen's 5th is listed by Herbert von Karajan, since he is the album artist, even though Beethowen is artist for every track of that album. Am I the only one who doesn't think this is right? Could that have been thought about a little bit more? And before you tell me that I can probably wiggle this out with some creative tagging - yes I can, but how many people from the target market for this product will too? -- slimkid The sound stage will open up, bass will tighten and the imaging will improve. DVD performance will also increase substantially. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35906 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
