[sldev] OS-SL Development Issues (was Upcoming viewer releases)

Nicholaz Beresford nicholaz at blueflash.cc
Wed Aug 29 03:50:14 PDT 2007


Hamncheese wrote:
 > To see
 > patches languish (mine or others) is a death knell for follow-on work.
 > The community is currently at the mercy of whomever ("you", "them",
 > "they", "Lindens", whatever word you want to use here) finally has
 > enough time to look at the contribution.

*nods*

There is an interesting thing about causality here.  It may sound a bit
cynical, but an OS developer will easily be able to find projects to
contribute to or to find other ways to spend their time.

The way I've heard about the state of Open Source projects in general is
that today they're more or less competing for the best (or any) heads
out there.

Basically, the way I understand it, the project has to provide a fertile
soil for the passion to contribute to grow.



Dale said:
 > You've got to have in mind that for every person complaining there might
 > well be somebody who is quietly coding. People generally don't post
 > "everything is fine" for no reason.

Seeing the recent drop in patch submissions (there used to be 2-3 daily
and now I think there were about two or three in a week) it's not unlikely
to consider that people generally don't say "good bye" also when they log
off from a project or lose interest.


Nick


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