On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Markku Tavasti <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/16/2015 07:54 PM, J. Liles wrote: > >> Aside from the occasional drive-by-patch, Non is a one man show. >> > > Very impressive work from one man! > Thanks. > > * What is your personal preference, would you like to get more people > involved in implementation? > Well, that's a tricky question. Non is a bit extreme in its philosophy of minimalism and in the free-software world it is nearly impossible to separate design from execution. So I guess what I'm saying is that in order to have more people involved in the development, they would have to be very quirky and obsessive people who agree with the path I've taken. It's far easier to find someone willing and able to add features and code to a project than it is to find someone willing and able to think hard about whether those features are necessary or what the most efficient way to implement them is. That's why we end up with so many massive, slow, monolithic, everything-and-the-kitchen-sink projects. That being said, it's far from unusual for a free software project to have a lone developer. In fact, that's perfectly normal. > * Do you have plans/roadmap for future, and are you still interested > in developing non? And do you still have time for it? > > Personally I'd like to participate, but reality is that I don't have time > :-( Yes, I do have loose roadmap. As the years have ticked by, I have wondered if lightweight software like Non would become irrelevant as available computing power increased, but it seems that everything else gets more bloated and slower faster than Moore's Law can compensate, so for the time being at least I think there's still a place for Non and its pathological efficiency. Lately I haven't had much time at all to devote to it, but that's nothing new either. Free time ebbs and flows. Eventually I'll get some stuff off my plate and have time to get back into recording/mixing and working on Non.
