On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, ThorstenB wrote: > absolutely unable to motivate - or at least keep people motivated on > working on our project. That's a major issue we have. Everyone who > spends time is "welcomed" by negative comments - and surprisingly many > leave. And I'm sorry to say, after reading emails like the above, I do > have difficulties in keeping myself motivated. > That's completely understandable. The bickering does get a bit old and I'm just as guilty as others in my participation in it. :(
FlightGear has been around as a going project since 1997. I've hung around the edges of the project this whole time, some times more active than others. I've not contributed a lot of code, but I've tried to push in the right spots periodically. I suspect if I get within arms' reach of Curt, I'm a cooked geek. :) FlightGear has some of the best systems simulation interfaces I've seen. It's easy to use and frankly, on par with what FSX/ESP/Prepar3d offers in terms of ability. The flight modeling is right up there as well - JSBSim has a great tendency to wipe the floor with the blood-encrusted remains of what FSX calls a "flight model". One thing that really lacks is the scene generator. I'm not really interested in why it's like that, but it is something that should be addressed. I'm absolutely not going to point fingers - frankly, I'm not qualified and it wouldn't really solve anything. What needs to happen is a post mortem of it. Outstanding issues need to be identified, they need to be triaged and they need to be addressed. These things need to be committed to paper (e or otherwise) before any code is written in order to prevent any ugly surprises down the road. FlightGear is a huge, complex project and has no kind of real project management at all. If that is not addressed, the mad rush in generally the same direction will eventually lead to the end of FlightGear. Be it a fork or just developer apathy, it's going to end. I'll put my hat in the ring to take over this duty - I figure I've annoyed just about every developer on the list, which everyone knows is the hallmark of a good manager. :) However, if it's not me, it MUST be someone. We need to be organized and we need it badly. The best way to get this herd of cats moving is to stuff 'em all in a long narrow hallway with a really angry dog on the end you don't want them moving towards. :) Woof. :) It's your call guys. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
