HI Andrew:
Well, we all can have our opinions about "list priority"... but in the
end, it's up to Elecraft (Wayne and Eric), with feedback from
customers and employees.
With regard to Elecraft "open-sourcing" their firmware.... don't count
on it. Especially if you like to have the current level of support.
Let's see how Ten Tec fares with their open source rig.
As far as I can see, Elecraft is quite responsive to feature requests
and bug fixes. People often point to a -lack- of response from other
manufacturers... including fixing -known- issues. They just continue
to make the same broken products.
In the end, things have been working quite well for Elecraft from a
business perspective. I doubt there would be any desire to change
anything that "isn't broken" from their perspective, and from the
perspective of most customers.
73 de Ray
K2ULR
KX3 #211
On Aug 19, 2014, at 3:33 AM, Andrew White wrote:
to quote Wayne from 7/10/2014 7:55 PM
<quote>
Hi all,
Our firmware task lists are sorted by priority. Determination of
Priority is democratic to some degree (Squeaky Wheel and other
industry
standard methodologies). But in practice it involves
crystal-ball-gazing, head-counting, arm-wrestling-over-a-beer, and a
healthy dose of what-we-have-time-for.
It is not practical for us to publish the lists.
That is nonsense. There are plenty of tools to easily track issues and
feature requests in a way that is no burden on your time. The best
thing
you could do is open source your firmware on GitHub and let other
people
start working on issues.
They change daily and
contain a lot of firmware-speak. We'd rather spend time actually
making
changes than on sanitizing lists for public consumption.
That is a job all in itself. It is called Product Management. If you
don't
have anyone that does that full time now you should hire someone to
do it.
If engineers are doing that now they should most definitely not be
doing it.
On 8/14/2014 4:55 PM, Sam Morgan wrote:
I doesn't have anything to do with one of their new products, so
there
is no reason to waste electrons asking or commenting.
They will get around to it when and if they ever decide to, or are
allowed to, work on something P3 or K3 related, and no amount of
asking
will change that.
No actually your premise is completely wrong. It will change that.
Products
live and die by the feedback customers give to the company. With no
public
issue tracking service offered by Elecraft of course it is going to
look
like a black box when in reality the lack of transparency for change
requests is hurting the product.
People are making their own 3rd party products for Elecraft (for the
KX3
for example) because "crystal-ball-gazing, head-counting,
arm-wrestling-over-a-beer, and a healthy dose of what-we-have-time-
for"
doesn't scale.
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