On 12/11/2013 5:35 PM, Chris Lahey wrote:
You're absolutely right that something like that could go up fairly quickly. I'm just afraid that it would take away from the possibility of something much more useful, though harder to obtain. I don't think it's forking the discussion to discuss whether this is a good idea.
Fair enough.
I've witnessed a number of volunteer web things things that never got off the ground at all because the requirements snowballed to the point where it would be really hard to get started. I've now come around to the position that sometimes, given limited time and resources, and when one isn't working on life-critical projects, it's worth figuring out what the minimum effort to do something useful would be, with the idea that once something is useful it will be easier to find more resources, and if you get bogged down you've at least got something useful.
So that's my bias in this discussion. -- Alan
