Don't you think that all open source projects begin as a labour of love?
Then enough smart & committed people take it forward into something more.
S
Geoff Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
07/15/2003 09:42 AM
Please respond to spectra-talk
To: Spectra-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Spectra, the Final Frontier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There hasn't been a feature additive release, but that doesn't mean
people
> haven't been adding their own features. With some push from MM and a
group
> of talented non-MM developers, maybe some of the features running around
> out there could get rolled into the core.
Heh.. funnily enough I agree. If someone out there actually took up the
role of "Benevolent Dictator" in Spectra open source, we would probably
contribute -- we still have several major clients who run Spectra and
who we support daily.
We've already released several Spectra enhancements -- but you'd be
surprised how difficult and time consuming it is to get something into a
distributable shape that is generic enough to work in most
installations. Especially since there is no commercial benefit in doing
so -- it becomes a labour of love.
Daemon Spectra Stuff
http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/spectra
Having run an open source project of the same sort of size since April
this year, I can tell you first hand that there is a lot of work
involved -- a lot. Especially since we are managing active feature
development and not simply bug fixes. It's not a decision we took
lightly and something we researched quite thoroughly before getting
involved.
With FarCry for instance we run several open CVS repositories
(http://code.daemon.com.au/), several mailing lists
(http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/support/mailing-lists), and a
comprehensive issue tracking database
(http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/support/known-issues) at the same time
as driving ongoing feature development.
We aggressively support the mailing lists, and our enthusiasm appears to
be igniting other developers interest. We also do our best to support
external developers ideas as best we can -- giving credit to everyone we
can no matter how small the contribution. It's hard work but every day
we build more confidence in the community.
Clearly our business has sufficient number of commercially supported
FarCry clients to support this model. Given the anxiety associated with
our own decision to move our business to this sort of service model I
find it hard to see people taking the plunge with Spectra. But I may be
wrong, and if anyone is brave enough to give it a try, we'd probably
throw some resources behind the effort now and then.
Best regards,
-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
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