Allen gave some good responses to this stuff, I've added a couple below.
On Aug 9, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Elias Torres wrote:
I'm also not an official part of the project, but I might be running the second or third largest Roller-based website ;-) and my opinion if it counts at all, is that if Dave/Allen can handle the heat in the kitchen, let them stay in the kitchen. I'm sure that's why they pay them the big bucks. Now, realistically speaking, I'm not really sure how long you can keep such schedule because I think that you'll either run out of "good/useful" ideas to implement or Roller will become like Word/Excel filled of features that people don't care about. Also, development machines for roller will need bigger hard drives to cope the billions of lines of code that will accumulate with such aggressive schedule. End of joking tone.
There is some truth to that humor.
Start of serious tone. - Will monthly releases include a decent amount of bug fixing or will it only be new features? - Will Dave/Allen work at all on community requirements?
The features that we've added to Roller come from 1) our user community on blogs.sun.com and 2) our perceptions of what external Roller "customers" want. Group blogging is a good example of #2. We didn't have a great need for group blogging at BSC, but we heard many requests for group blogging from potential Roller customers.
- Dave
