Eugene Surowitz wrote:
>
> Each version/fork of the code reduces the net effectiveness
> of the programming hours spent unless each person tunnel
> visions their work; that's just good control of your own time/effort.
> I in no way imply that the separate forks aren't making very
> meaningful improvements.
>
> Its just that there is no whole that is greater than the sum of the parts
> or even equal to them.
>
I would say that due to presence of forks each one has smaller
value than in case when it would stand alone. Namely, forks
confuse users and cause false expectations. Actually, now
we have 3 separate projects and talking about forks already
begins confusion.
Of course, having 3 projects which try to implement very
similar functionality and which started from common codebase
is wasteful. But when goals diverge it is less wasteful
than endless discussion. Normally, after fork sooner or
later one project becomes the leading one and the other
become irrelevant. Ultimately, this is up to comunity
to decide which of projects serve better its needs.
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Waldek Hebisch
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