On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Bill Chmura wrote:
What event would be necessary in your view for a "need for future development to manifest itself"?
I do not honestly have the time to spend on this thread, but to answer
your question I would have to develop a need personally with
What I am using it for. Then I would have a need for further
development. I think that there are three driving forces behind OSS,
Ego, Hobbiests and People with a need. Heck the first two can even be
combined most of the time. "We can make something better than product
A". Since there
is no money involved it’s a case of showcasing ones skills, repect of
their peers, etc, etc. Nobody out there decides - "Hey, there is a need
to an alternative to X, I'll spend a hundred hours on it and donate it
anonomyously". I don’t think this is bad at all, its just the way
humans are. When I write something I want people to see
my name. (AARRRRGGGGG Outlook keeps capitalizing new lines for me - a
new line is NOT the start of a new sentence - remind me to tell
Microsoft).
I'm sure you'll get far with that one...
If I came up with a need and there was nothing out there I would develop
it and move on. Yes, I can see that there would be problems getting it
back into the main
core, but oh well.
Depends on the feature. It can be in the core if general or it can be something available outside of the core, like we do with contrib or the tools projects...
I was involved with another project awhile back and
development stymied. A bunch of people decided to fork off into their
own group with the core and continue development. That was like someone
taking the paddles and zapping a heart attack patient.
Lets hope it doesn't come to that :)
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