I am not a developer and an not hugley active on the linuxcnc forum and am not a CNC expert but am an enthusiast and would like to share my view
Linuxcnc is an open source product but it is also a community As a community it will have its moments, groups of people with different views goals etc etc Ideas or issues are floated on the mailing list people go off and create or fix different parts and then submit them for inclusion in the "product" So on that basis if people had some features that the community or the communities gate keeper felt appropriate I can not see an issue with them funding that and that then submitting that for inclusion - there would be no guarantee for inclusion or rejection Open source stuff is dealt with by people in there spare time that is just one of the attributes if there are enough people (and demand) it tends to move quicker if not then it does not As for the infrastructure or organization a safe pair of hand can be hard to find people sometimes despite being finished with a role are nervous to step back from the role formally and think I will just keep doing it but never quite manage to despite good intentions .....In my opinion some times there needs to be a gap left for people to fill and this can be hard if the predecessor was particularly good - people will be or could be apprehensive to step into that space It has been a while since we had a major release, someone has stepped forward to take that role on and my guess is he is still finding his feet and as a community I feel we need to give the next release a chance to make its way to the finish line and give the person in the release role all the support we can I feel that Linuxcnc is in very capable hands As for "commercialisation" I dont believe it is the way to go and having long term funded roles threatens what Linuxcnc is and introduces many other dynamic whilst we are not in a perfect world at the moment it would be more complex and difficult if it were commercialised in my view I may have missed the point and gone off on a ramble - I hope not Just my 5 cents On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 15:04, Rod Webster <r...@vmn.com.au> wrote: > >I'm not a linuxcnc developer, but I'm working on to become one ;) > I'm not a Linuxcnc developer and I'm trying hard NOT to become one. But > you do what you have to do so I will follow in your footsteps Reinhardt! > And self-flagelation is fun sometimes! > > Rod Webster > *1300 896 832* > +61 435 765 611 > VMN® > www.vmn.com.au > > > > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 00:01, Julian Wingert <julian.wing...@web.de> > wrote: > > > Well, I myself don't have the time to work on lcnc. But paying a few > > hundred bucks some time or low 2figure regularly wouldn't be an issue. > > > > Best regards > > Julian > > > > On 14 June 2020 15:57:08 CEST, Reinhard <reinha...@schwarzrot-design.de> > > wrote: > > >Hi Stefan, > > > > > >On Sonntag, 14. Juni 2020, 15:49:32 CEST Stefan Asmus wrote: > > >> So what is the worst case scenario? More forks pop up like > > >MachineKit? > > > > > >Sorry, my post was not against you! > > >Although I quoted your mail. > > > > > >I HATE people, that travel on goods for nothing and who have the > > >impertinence > > >to put in a claim. That's all. > > > > > >I'm not a linuxcnc developer, but I'm working on to become one ;) > > > > > > > > >cheers Reinhard > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Emc-developers mailing list > > >Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Pinneberg > > Julian Wingert > > > > Subtilitas Consulting > > > > Holstenstr. 25 > > 25421 Pinneberg > > > > Phone: 0170/4516094 > > FAX: 03212-1479681 > > Mail: julian.wing...@subtilitas.de > > > > USt-IdNr.: DE272503212 > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
