> Just wondering, how are design and release decisions made at FLTK? > Are decisions made by consensus or benevolent dictator? Is there a > web page that lists who the official project leader is and the team > members? If there's no official team, then who has CVS control? > Who's running FLTK?
As I understand it: Bill Spitzak started FLTK, and was busy with the FLTK2 fork when I started wirh FLTK. Since then, Nuke, his commercial app, switched from FLTK(2) to Qt, so his involvement has dropped considerably, and without his vision of where it was going, FLTK2 activity dropped. Mike Sweet was the guardian of FLTK1, and his company hosts the FLTK web site. Mike's focus switched to printing / ghostscript / cups but he still pops up in the FLTK forums with suggestions from time to time. Matthias Melcher then became the standard bearer for FLTK1 and his vision has driven it for a couple of years, but he too has become busy with other things, leaving Albrecht Schlosser as the current active developer for FLTK1. Ian MacArthur pulled in the UTF-8 code based on previous work by Bill, O'ksi'D and Roman Kantor. Printing support has been added recently by Manolo Gouy. Greg Ercolano fixes bugs in FLTK1 as his large commercial app uncovers them. Various other people provide input, patches, etc. Too many to mention. Someone who has contributed for a while can apply for developer access to the SVN repository, and that's usually granted by Mike Sweet. The list of developers is visible to developers, but the only ones who have commited anything regularly to FLTK1 recently, according to the fltk.commit messages are Matt, Albrecht, Manolo, Ian and Greg. The general direction and approximate release plan are discussed in fltk.development, and requests for enchancement and software trouble reports to be solved for the next release are detailed online in the Developer Roadmap. Usually all Critical and High STRs need to be solved before the release can be made. Developers vote on the RFEs and it takes a minimum of 3 votes and an overall +ve to agree an RFE. This, and more, is discussed in the Configuration Management Plan: at http://www.fltk.org/cmp.php So, who's running FLTK? Answer: It's a community effort, but any additional help would be more than welcome... D. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
