21 Dec
2010
21 Dec
'10
5:18 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Paul Davis wrote:
the idea is to limit the set of people "just
trying it" to people who are ready for it to break on them and
willing to get involved and help us fix the issue. what you're
alluding to is to me more like a beta test. we haven't released an
alpha yet.
Possibly the text on ardour.org/download_full should be edited from "If
you are an active developer of Ardour, or a beta[sic] tester..." to
something more like Paul's stronger statement above.
...or better yet, replace it with a link to the 'getting involved' section
of the development page, then in the 'welcome' message of the ardour-dev
mailing list, mention the requirement to also join the ardour-commit list,
and in that list's welcome message, finally give the link to the svn
checkout command.
...maybe then you'll have fewer distractions from drive-by
construction-zone gawkers, as well as lower levels of 'buzz' and
anticipation of the pleasures to come. It's a balancing act. To what
extent are the developers motivated by the public attention of that
'buzz', balanced by the distractions of the occasional
less-than-fully-formed bug report, and the drawn-out meta-discussions such
as this one?
--
Rick Green
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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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