On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:09 AM, James Turner wrote:
>
> On 27 Oct 2011, at 12:58, Jari Häkkinen wrote:
>
> > Sorry for the rant-like appearance of this message.
>
> No need to apologise, I'd say it's 100% accurate - including the lack of a
> single leader, the fact that project does 'okay' without very tight central
> leadership, mostly, and the attendant responsibility on the people making
> the decisions :)
Let me add a couple comments --
Jari, think through the work load of what you'd like a single leader to do.
To be intimately involved in all the major projects and efforts going on.
Respond to every issue and question in a timely manner. Have a deep
understanding of every corner of the code and the project.
Now imagine people who have day jobs -- who might need to be focused on
something else for a good chunk of the day so they can eat and provide
shelter for themselves. Oh, and imagine some of these people could have
families and kids and spouses that want to have some interaction once in a
while. Oh, and not everyone lives on redbull and doritos so there needs to
be some sleep planned into the schedule. Should a flightgear leader be
allowed to take the night off to watch a sports game or visit friends?
So just remember we are doing this all for free on top of all our other life
commitments. Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect that for someone to fulfill
your expectations, they would need to be 100% full time dedicated to that
single task. And if the FlightGear project can't offer full time pay to
that person, how can we expect them to dedicate all their available work
time to the task?
>From my perspective, the FlightGear project has grown way beyond what a
single person can hold in their head all at once. This is why we work
towards systems that distribute the load and give more access. We aren't
perfect and maybe we don't always act quickly enough and certainly we all
are human beings and are open for heavy criticism if that's the direction we
would want to take this.
We are a group of individuals coming together with a common interest. I
would hope we realize our own limits and flaws and thus are a somewhat
flexible when encountering the limits and flaws in other people. But yet
despite our collective limits and imperfections, together we are doing our
best to make positive contributions to this wonderful project.
Best regards,
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson:
http://www.atiak.com - http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/
http://www.flightgear.org - http://gallinazo.flightgear.org
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