-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 leee wrote:
> It is difficult to see a good answer to this issue. On the one hand, > planning > ahead and setting specific objectives for the FG developers to work towards > would give known objectives and a clear development path but at the same time > would constrain developers to working on what the plan requires, which may > not be what the individuals concerned are interested in. On the other hand, > if FG development carries on as it is now, with developers able to follow any > line of development they find interesting there will be many new valuable > developments but it will continue to be unpredictable and chaotic. The largest open source project with thousands of developers, namely the Linux kernel itself does not have the slightest idea of a road map, even though most of the developers are in fact paid to work on it. And it works pretty well. > Perhaps FG has reached the point where it positively needs some sort of > oversight management and planning, as seems to happen with many, if not most, > large-scale Open-source projects e.g. Apache, Wine etc. I'm not aware of any oversight planning or road map for wine, but I could just have overlooked it as I follow the development only as an interested user. Nine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGmmme1QuEJQQMVrgRAksWAJ9B6FGswLFYcgUAjhypIAVpc2BuVACghq0x 0chPghVnshiBLzDDTDHl44k= =dnai -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
