On Wednesday 04 January 2006 16:31, Ben Clark wrote: > What if we had a central location for all flightgear models with the > following features:
We already have a central location for fg models on the aircraft download page (and CVS of course) > Login System > Upload and manage aircraft Hmm. I'd be wary of that one myself... I think the current system (a/c authors send updates to one of the devs with CVS commit access) appears to work fairly well, although I haven't quite got to the stage of sending mine in yet so I reserve the right to change that opinion :-) > Aircraft inflight pictures It would be nice to be able to display screenshots that you think are nice... the wiki could be used for that too? The other side to that is the policing required - I can see that being ripe for abuse if it was wide open to all :-( > Version number, changelog and features Features would likely be a useful addition to the a/c page - maybe a subpage for each aircraft to save the main page getting too cluttered? > Comment and rating This is something I'd be very wary of. It takes a lot of work to model an aircraft, and a massive amount of work to do it nicely. Nobody can appreciate that properly until they try it for themselves, and I can see this feature actually having a negative effect. If people complain or unhelpfully criticise a model that someone has dedicated a large number of hours to and which after all costs nothing, the author I can imagine might well be discouraged and even feel disinclined to carry on working on it. If someone wants to improve on any model that currently exists, the opportunity is there for them to get off their backsides and do it themselves - as several people have, I know, submitting their improvements to the aircraft author, or one of the mailing lists. On the other hand, if you try an aircraft model and love it, you are free to email the author or the mailing lists to enthuse about it and display your appreciation. So I'd be wary of a ratings system... also because different things matter to different people; some prioritise eye-candy and others FDM fidelity. In conclusion... Some good suggestions (features page, user-submitted screenshots etc) but I really don't like the idea of the ratings system. If someone hates my model I'd rather they kept it to themselves or fixed it :-) Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
