On 2007-08-16 00:49, Christian Thaeter wrote:
> Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > On 2007-08-15 17:36, Christian Thaeter wrote:

...

> > I think you won't get much feedback from the older core developers since
> > these goals are so large and you haven't tackled a smaller piece of Cin
> > first.
> I have done little work in my branches but get demotivated by this
> 'bottomless pit' discovery and that there is no much perspective to get
> new things merged into the SVN trunk because it breaks the current
> concept. I think thats exactly what many other potential contributors
> see. There are patches and contributions rotting somewhere.
> 

Well, this 'patches rotting somewhere' is an argument without evidence
that you seem to keep making.  You understand that we've had a standing
policy that patches get added to the bug tracker for best tracking, or
sent to the mailing list if you can't be bothered to add them to the bug
tracker?  They don't 'get lost' either place.  A search will turn them
up easily (which is one of the reasons I personally like these methods.)

Maybe these patches you mention are rotting in git somewhere? ;)  The
more places people are told they can submit things, the more confusing
it is.

I only know of one or two Cin people that might go look at the git repo
for patches, so if they don't get mentioned on the mail list or
bugzilla, then they are going to rot there just as easily.

And while mob is a cute idea, you'd better tag things with email
addresses or some other contact information.  If we can't come back and
ask questions, verify platforms, or test cases, I'd question the value
of any anonymous contribution.  That just leaves you with a much larger
pile of average quality code that you can't get further info on.

Do you have any experience over 6 months on a large software project to
have an idea of what it takes to get a usable product out?

-- 
Kevin

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