Hi All, In the past, we've seen a large number of projects that were initiated for FlightGear; Atlas, fgrun, the terragear toolchain, and taxidraw. Many of these program have undergone substantial development, many contributors have come and gone, and in a number of cases, the project management has changed hands from one person to another.
While this is really great, I also cannot escape the impression that some of these programs either don't really live up to their full potential, or at the verge of constant abandonment, due to limited developer access. Note that for the latter, I have one specific case in mind, which is taxidraw. TaxiDraw's most active developer, Ralf Gerlich recently resigned, and I've been wondering how to proceed. The official taxidraw repository is hosted at sourceforge and cvs based. Looking at the TaxiDraw project page, I could only identify David Luff as the project admin. I've been trying to get in touch with Dave to discuss taxidraw's future, but unsuccessfully thus far. I think that taxidraw is an essential piece of software and I think that FlightGear could benefit tremendously, if it were only more easily accessible. For this reason, I think that it would be a good idea if we started bundling it's latest version along with the official release and incorporate it into the automatic snapshot builds. Additionally, we need to ensure future developers access. I hope that David Luff will respond, so that we can work out a plan for improve future consistency of it's development cycle. If not, I might consider moving the taxidraw source over to gitorious and incorporate it as a subproject of fg. Any thoughts / ideas would be welcome. Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
