On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 09:46:14AM -0500, Daron Rogers wrote: > Thanks Glen for pointing me to the wiki. Guess I forgot about that. > However, what about the delegation part of my previous comment? Who are > the programmers to PyCAD? How many are there presently? Are the different > "wish list" items being worked on by specific individuals or is it a whom > ever feels like it sort of thing? Can these questions also be answered on > the wiki?
I'm the only regular programmer on the project. Other people have contributed bug fixes and patches, but there hasn't been anyone who has become a regular contributor. That's the problem I'm hoping to resolve, and I'm glad to see that there's been some traffic on the mailing list discussing this. The PythonCAD code is, in my view, easier to comprehend than code written in a lower level language like C or C++, and I've always hoped that by making the language hurdle lower more people would consider contributing. It will take some time to dig through the code to start to see how the pieces fit together, and it's my fault that the documentation, or lack thereof, is primarily comments in the code and doc strings. I also know that contributing to an open source project is dependent on just how much of their free time someone can devote to working on something like PythonCAD. I've felt that projects like PythonCAD will have a harder time drawing developers because the program is targeted to a specific segment of computer users that typically don't code general applications. A CAD package is probably of little interest to most programmers as it isn't the type of software they would use on a daily basis. It's a challenge to attract programmers to contribute to most open-source packages, especially not the high profile programs like the Linux kernel, GCC, KDE, GNOME, the various BSD distros, etc. Art -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822 _______________________________________________ PythonCAD mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad
