MacArthur, Ian (SELEX) (UK) wrote: >> For example, as an >> automechanic with ten workers, and if you need to fix two >> cars where first >> has only one broken wheel while second has all four wheels >> broken, broken >> engine, broken fenders... would you assign your workers >> (attention) equally, >> five to first and remaining five to second to work on each >> for one month? >> Here, with FLTK as it seems, in best, 80% of attention is >> given to FLTK 1.x >> and only remaining 20% at FLTK 2.x. > > Unfortunatley, that example doesn't reflect the reality of open-source > development. No one is assigning workers here, it's a community, folk > just work on the bits that matter to them. > What we have is I think, more like this. We have two cars, one of which > is a really cool custom car that a few guys are working on in their > spare time (fltk-2), the other (fltk-1.1) is being maintained by a bunch > of guys who don't really mind that it's not so cool, because what they > really need is a reliable ride into town... > ...
Actually, the situation is that a couple developers are working on 1.x (me and Matthias, primarily) while the other 8 active developers are working on 2.0 (which would mean that 80% are working on 2.0 and 20% on 1.x...) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com Internet Printing and Publishing Software http://www.easysw.com _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
