Malte, Is my firm belief that if the project will save or make people money right away then they will help...
:D On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Malte Pfaff-Brill <[email protected]>wrote: > Andre, sorry for hijacking this thread a bit... > > I would be interested in how many people would really think they would be > willing to invest some effort into various open source projects. I know > David is a huge advocate of all things OSS. However, as Richmond pointed out > pretty well, over the last 8 years I´ve spend in this community I have > rarely seen OSS projects that took up momentum. I have been wondering why > that is for quite a while now. My main thought is that it is not exactly > easy to collaborate on rev Projects. This is partly due to the binary nature > of stacks which makes it hard to use a version control system on rev > projects, partly due to the lack of a place where projects like this could > be hosted. > > Current state: Everyone that tries to release stuff to the community is > cooking her own soup. Though most people are very generous with sharing code > on the lists and forums, there is no central repository where people can go > to and collaborate on projects. We do have many sites spread all over the > world with too many gems to dig out. > Additionally we have revOnline. revOnline is a good place for consumers / > prosumers though, not suitable for starting a collaborative effort to work > on code. Especially libraries. Most of the stuff on revOnline is there for > the visual stuff the stack does, or in a state where the lib is basically > finished. > > So the only things an author that uploads to revOnline can gain is > - giving examples what can be done > - help someone solve a problem with a complex stuff (requires a lot of > coordination and is usually easier done by mail) > - show off what he has done. > > What an author usually can not hope for is to benefit from changes other > coders have made once a stack is released into the wild. I have no idea how > many people here would really willing to dedicate time into OSS projects (my > last try was rather frustrating, though it has been a few years since I last > tried.) I might be willing to test the waters again in a couple of weeks. > More on that later. > > All the best, > > Malte > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
