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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:18:19PM +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> Leonard Ritter wrote:
> >On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:59 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >>there isn't a single project that
> >>couldn't use a at least a few more developers. every single project:
> >>Rosegarden, MuSE, Lilypond, Aldrin,
> >
> >now hold it there! i don't want any of your dirty fingers on my precious
> >code.
> >
> >no, actually, i think we are doing fine. manpower doesn't necessarily
> >mean faster progress. if we just keep stealing from each others codebase
> >(that's what gpl is about, dammit), each one of our little projects will
> >turn out just fine.
> >
>
> In our attempt to help fulfilling 'the need for every single possible
> hardware interface to work', we could use some helping hands. I'm pretty
> confident that we're better off with a lot of (possibly dirty-handed)
> coders + some good maintainers than with the current situation where 3
> spare-time coders do it all. The current situation does help for
> satisfying my personal need for eternal glory and unlimited kudos...
>
> We should keep in mind that we're all doing it for fun (I hope) and that
> most of us don't make a living out of this. Concentration of these
> spare-time development efforts would be nice, but it doesn't seem to be
> working that way.
>
> My personal feeling is that the initial effort to learn somebody else's
> code is the main bottleneck towards entering a project. Sometimes people
> think they can do it better, or that it will be easier to do a complete
> rewrite. And sometimes they are right (e.g. ZynAddSubFX).
>
Exactly. A good discussion, but this thread is ultimately as old as Free Software.
I think this sums it up pretty well:
http://goatchowder.wordpress.com/2006/04/09/in-praise-of-cadt/
Which is a response to the classic:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
- -ken
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