Chris Bowditch wrote: > Mike Brodbelt wrote: > > <snip/> > >>Yes please :-). One problem at the moment is that the website (which is >>excellent, on the whole) has no reference to a development timeline, and >>a new user will notice that the last release was 9 months ago, and >>wonders what's happening. Admittedly, a bit of additional searching will >>take them to the mailing list archives, but one has to do a lot of >>reading to build up a picture of the current state of play. > > > Timelines are a concept that dont fit with the open source development > model. In the commercial world, employees can be allocated work and > expected to complete it within a time frame. In open source, there are > no "employees", so work is completed in an adhoc fashion.
Yes, I've been around OSS stuff for long enough to know that asking for timelines is usually futile :-). But one can always hope.... Mike. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
