22 Feb
2004
22 Feb
'04
12:31 a.m.
Rob wrote:
On Saturday 21 February 2004 22:42, Patrick Shirkey
wrote:
I disagree. By avoiding black-hole "design projects" that put
out PR and never go anywhere, coders who are actually productive
have more time available to bring other, more active projects up
to speed, while preventing said black hole projects from
projecting the illusion of active development and sucking in
other developers. People say free software is a meritocracy,
but really, it's a who-produces-the-most-working-code-ocracy.
And it works.
I'm not familiar with the Linux sampler project nor with Pete's
program, so this is a general statement and not specifically
about those two. I am involved with Gambas, though, a VB-like
language for Linux, perhaps the only one you can use for real
projects currently, and people have always made comments like
"Why don't you merge your project with something more
established like KBasic?" KBasic being another "get lots of
press, design for 3 years and then never release any working
code" black hole of a project. It's not a unique situation
(remember how GNOME Office was gonna gut and then replace
Openoffice?) and it's frustrating for any developer who actually
produces code to hear.
Sure if you are expected to drop everything and merge that's a different
story. But wholesale writing off another project that has goals far in
advance of your own because you don't know it's history is lame too.
Ardour was definitely a slow mover for the first couple of years. But
then Taybin arrived and made significant contributions which encouraged
Paul and Jeremy and by the time Jesse came onto the scene it was ready
to rock.
Pete or others witht the skill base could do everyone a significant
service by channeling a small amount of time into Linux Sampler. I'm
starting to get the urge too. After watching a friend use abletone live
I can see some great possibilities for a disk sampler which also has
realtime capabilities.
Even if it turns out to be just a lib which everyone can use.
--
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Fsck that.
They can come help Specimen, which is fully
usable now, if not feature rich. Or they can work on SimSam
Nice attitude. While this ethic is understandable it doesn't
help progressions very much.