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RE: was pissed off - Now Guided development?
- To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: was pissed off - Now Guided development?
- From: "Jason Lee" <jasonjlee@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:14:19 +0100
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Title: RE: [ukha_d] was pissed off - Now Guided
development?
Tony,
This funded development idea is something I’ve been saying to
people too. I’ve seen a guy try it
from the avsforums in a strange way, but I think he started too
big.
He sold shares in the company, but he needed quite a few quid
for his project, and there just wasn’t the
demand.
Oops, I just gave a negative example of something
I’m trying to support!
It’s a great idea in my
opinion… It takes more organizing but I think the benefits could be huge.
For example, the guy who wrote huffyuv. He started asking for
donations. I donated, and wrote a nice long email
to him suggesting that he get people who have
donated to guide further development.
Say list two features..
1.Add x
2.Add y
People vote when they donate for which they would like..
Target figures could be attached to each before they are triggered that
reflect the amount of work involved.. Things can be planned in stages..
Something like this worked recently with support for UK streams in tytool.. It was on the back burner,
then people said they would pay for it. It was put in the next
release.
He binned the idea, and hasn’t updated his work
in years.. L Big
shame.
This is the way Linux dev should be channeled as I often feel
that average
‘users’ are the last thing
they listen too, as
devs
FONT> like to work on the things that
interest themselves. (Not trying to
start a flame war!!)
This way projects that 1 guy is capable of pulling of, get
more developers, more ‘user
feedback’ and become what people want, as they are paying for
it..
Anyway, just seems
reasonable to me… I just think of the
wasted talents that are sitting idle that if pooled together could make a big difference. Would
take a lot of organizing though, but I think it would be worth
it.
J
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