Am 12.07.2006 um 18:13 schrieb Mike:
On 7/12/06, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Our fork (15.02.2005) was motivated with similar reasons. All of us
depend (to a high extent) to the server code which means that we'd
like
to have certain "influence" about the direction of the develompent.
This proved to be a very time consuming and difficult task in the AS
project as things have been questioned, re-questioned, endlessly
flamed etc.
...
So. I hope I did not open more questions than I attempted to answer!
If yes, hit me with your rhythm stick :-)
Zoran,
Thank you for your complete answer. It does raise a few questions,
but they are simple...
1) Are you or the other developers committed to fixing bugs that do
not affect your business? Again, this is not hostile - but I want to
know, since the dev. team is small, if I run into bugs, will I be told
"we work on the parts we need, feel free to fix it and submit a patch"
or can I expect more of a "this is an opensource project we run, so we
will devote time to helpind you with this bug you found."
I can't speak of others but if you have a problem with the server code
itself and if I see that I can help I will do that. I'm already
maintaining
the Tcl threading extension so I know what you are asking about...
I believe the others will do the same.
2) Was anything from AS 4.5 merged into NS, if not - is there a
plan for this?
This is good question! I do not know by heart. I will have to go
and double-check against the 4.5 list. As the matter of fact, we
added quite a lot of core-code which is not in the 4.5. The only
source of such info at this moment is the ChangeLog. This contains
everything but is not that easy to read.
Finally, I would like to ask that you post either the above verbatum
or a modified version of your response somewhere on the NS wiki.
Perhaps short bios of you, Vlad, and Stephen and when you care about
developing NS would be quite helpful. Right now the only information
available is the "Key Facts" page, and it's quite hard to guage where
this project comes from or why simply by reading that page.
Well... I will have to see with other collegues... You know how it goes:
we are all programmers and it's easier for us to write code than to
write marketing materials! But I understand that this sort of info is
needed.
Cheers
Zoran
