Marc Weustink ha scritto:
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???? what will a foundation offer for those outside the us ?
Marc
I'm afraid that sometimes we get confused by what others do. We see what
they do, but we fail to grasp why. Others set up a foundation, why don't
we do the same?
But one should first of all understand why others do it, and try to
check if we're in the same condition.
Following the threads in this ml one realizes that the number of people
actually writing code is very small. Most of the partecipants are "beta
testers" which provide very useful feedback, but which don't write
lazarus code.
The structure appears to be simple and efficient. Patches and
contributions are filtered by Mathias, and if he's convinced the patch
is applied, if he's not, the patch doesn't get in the main trunk. Some
days he has one or two topics to deal with, many times he's got none.
This is the quickest and most effective way to carry on a project, until
the number of partecipants grows beyond the capabilities of a single
man. At this point a structured organization is required. Someone
devoting his time not to develop software but to coordinate others doing it.
But one must understand that this isn't a better way in itself . It's
just the lesser evil when it's impossible to do otherwise. Someone
coordinating other people is more prone to take wrong decisions, for
lack of first hand knowledge, than someone directly doing the work.
If and when the group which actually writes the code will feel that
tey're unable to cope with the bulk of work, when some of them will
discover that they spend most of their time trying to coordinate instead
of developing, they may discover that they're no more having fun, and
maybe they'll feel compelled to set up an organization, which may
require money, and possibly a foundation to gather it. But it's up to them.
The only way to push them in that direction is to overload them with
contributions, tons of good code to be included into lazarus. Words
won't convince them (rightly IMHO).
Giuliano
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