We will easy be able to pay for a full time developer if we all put our 5 dollars in one pot...
On 14 June 2020 11:53:13 CEST, Julian Wingert <julian.wing...@web.de> wrote: >Moin! (north german hello) > >I would like to add some thoughts. > >1. Releases are a must have. Think about someone having a 10000 Dollar >Maschine being brocken by a Bug. I for myself am very cautious about >testing new versions, as my machine has 2x 2KW servos on y-axis, easy >able to tear the machine apart... >2. If there are spenders, bring them on. What about a patreon for lcnc? >And payment is done in 3 tiles, one in advance, one @integration and >one @release. We make a list of open things, define a price and publish >them. I for myself would be OK with the one organizing getting paid for >his work. >3. Mark Shuttleworth may be interested in sponsorship along with >Ubuntu? > >I think we have the usual problem, communication issues. >It the spenders and the developers would have a platform..... > >Best regards >Julian > >On 11 June 2020 18:57:56 CEST, Curtis Dutton <curtd...@gmail.com> >wrote: >>I'm not familiar exactly with the release process as I'm a RIP guy on >>all >>of my machines and run master. >> >>One of the open source projects I work with (racket-lang) uses a >>monthly >>release schedule with minor releases and then a major release once per >>year. They are academics and have funding so doing a monthly release >>sounds >>too hard. However would something along those lines be appropriate? >>Perhaps >>quartly or bi-annual releases? >> >>Is generating a release highly difficult? If so we should work on >>making >>that easier and ideally automatic. >> >>Master functionality vs 2.7 or 2.6 is a very large difference and no >>matter >>when the next release occurs, it is going to be painful for most users >>to >>upgrade. This next release will almost be more of a 3.0 than anything. >>The >>sooner that bandaid gets pulled off the better. >> >>Users need to be accustomed to frequent releases and frequent upgrades >>if >>not just to get them used to doing it. >> >>Now we definitely want RTAI in there, many users need it and linuxcnc >>needs >>as many users as it can get. >> >>Is it possible to get RTAI on a point release after the fact (unless >>the >>bug gets fixed sooner?) Why does the release need to be all or >nothing? >>Can >>we do a special RTAI release later as soon as the bug gets fixed just >>because it is a special case? >> >> >> >>On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:58 AM Phill Carter ><phillcarte...@gmail.com> >>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> > On 11 Jun 2020, at 12:54 pm, Rod Webster <r...@vmn.com.au> wrote: >>> > >>> >> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 12:33, Reinhard >><reinha...@schwarzrot-design.de> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> If other users have similar experiences, then a lot of precious >>> developer >>> >> time >>> >> has been wasted on releases, that don't have much importance. >>> >> I believe, that developer time spent on pushing things ahead >makes >>more >>> >> sense, >>> >> than spending it on releases. >>> > >>> > I think that sums it up nicely. >>> > Look to the future I say! >>> >>> >>> But I thought you were pushing for a release Rod. ;-) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-developers mailing list >>> Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >>> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Emc-developers mailing list >>Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > >-- >Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Pinneberg >Julian Wingert > >Subtilitas Consulting > >Holstenstr. 25 >25421 Pinneberg > >Phone: 0170/4516094 >FAX: 03212-1479681 >Mail: julian.wing...@subtilitas.de > >USt-IdNr.: DE272503212 >_______________________________________________ >Emc-developers mailing list >Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Pinneberg Julian Wingert Subtilitas Consulting Holstenstr. 25 25421 Pinneberg Phone: 0170/4516094 FAX: 03212-1479681 Mail: julian.wing...@subtilitas.de USt-IdNr.: DE272503212 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
