On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 11:18 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > If it only works as well as 1.x, why are users going to be any more > pleased with g2 than 1.x? Do you think the average user knows and > cares what libraries their acct package uses?
No, but they do care that they can package-management-install it and get it up and running in a spare evening. That capability is being threatened. > I think that the survival of GC depends on maintaining (nay, > *gaining*) *developers*. A growing user-base is an incidental > consequence of a high-quality program, which is determined by > developer labor quantity and quality, which is a function of the > condition of the code-base. The best developers are those that are users, and decide to "upgrade" to being devs ... either with a small patch or more active development involvement. > I'm sorry I can't tell you what you want to hear. IMO, attracting > devs is more important than releasing g2. As for cause and effect, > the former can cause the latter, but the latter will not help the > former. Attracting more devs is more important than releasing G2, but releasing G2 will allow a larger user-base, which *will* attract more devs. They're both important. But with respect to "major architectural changes", the largest and highest-value one to be made right now is dropping the gnome1 dependencies. Moreover, since we've already started doing it, we should _finish_ it before starting new projects to prevent cross-contamination. More moreover, we *can* do another release without any new features, but *not* without finishing the G2 port. ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
