[opensource-dev] Snowglobe as an mixed reality platform

[Philippe (Merov) Bossut]

Hi Morgaine,

I'm surprised and disappointed you're reading so much into this. Personal
(and irrelevant) feelings aside, my answer was motivated strictly by the
following:
- There is an already existing set of code with experimental results and it
looks very nice indeed.
- There's a chance all this good work might get lost forever if it doesn't
find a host.
- According to Tuomas, it's relatively isolated on the fringe of the code
and doesn't need rearchitecture.
- The Snowglobe community is certainly the best qualified to look at this
code and see how we could merge it if at all.

Based on that, the minimum we can do as a community is to show respect for
the work done by Tuomas and his group and welcome them. I see no reason to
turn them down and you haven't provided any BTW.

Note that I'm not offering to merge the project "as is" but lay out some
steps for Tuomas to take so that we can collectively study that code,
namely: log something in JIRA and attach a patch so we can look at the code.

I hope others on the list feel the same and that we'll find some enthusiast
folks to look into Tuomas project and see if and how it can fit into
Snowglobe (hint: I'm unlikely to have the bandwidth to do this). The fact
that it might need preliminary work being done on the client-scripting side
of things is, IMO, a plus (give us something tangible to gauge our
thinking).

Regards,
- Merov
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