On 10/20/06, Ilias Lazaridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Björn Swift wrote: > > I work for a company called CCP, a persistent world developer. We currently > > have one world in operation, EVE Online (see http://www.eve-online.com for > > details). We have been using Trac for the last year or so, with good > > results. > > > > We look at the current Roadmap with much excitement. The datetime > > (+timezone) support will do a lot for us as we have offices around the > > globe, not to mention WorkFlow and PermissionPolicy - which will make Trac > > much more useful in a production environment. > > > > We realize that all this takes a lot of work and we are thinking of how we > > can speed up this process. We have some resources to dispense for Trac, but > > those mostly go towards in house customizations and specialized plugin > > development. > > Encouraging (Trac) Development hits on several barriers. > > One is the license issue, which is solved (Trac's very liberal BSD2 > license) > > See this message for some background information: > > http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev/msg/d68b88f3810e2e97 > > - > > Another barrier is, to find a 'healthy' way to combine Open Source with > Commercial Interests. > > I think that I am close to have an solution for this, by simply > publishing working plans: > > http://dev.lazaridis.com/base/wiki/WorkingPlans > > This gives the necessary visibility to attract commercial clients, but > _only_ when contributing actively to the open-source project. > > > CCP has, throughout the years, had volunteers working on EVE Online doing > > things from testing to serious programming. We thought we might, for the > > hell of it, post a short Development Blog mentioning Trac and encouraging > > our community to have a look. We are hoping to get positive feedback, and > > maybe even add a few developers to the Trac development base. > > More contributors are of course of benefit. > > Different mentalities can create non-solvable conflicts, which decrease > development throughput. > > Although not sure yet, I think that I am close to a solution for one of > the 'central desasters' within open source: > > http://case.lazaridis.com/wiki/Mentality
I think all that can be said about running OSS projects is here: http://producingoss.com/ bye, Erik. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
