On Thursday 18 February 2010 17:57:52 Kent Quirk (Q Linden) wrote: > This makes me sad. > > I've been trying to have an open discussion about some of the design issues > in my office hours, specifically to understand the constraints and > requirements of the community. But every office hour seems to be followed > up by flames on this list and in other forums interpreting what was said > in the worst possible way. > > I'm afraid the tone and direction of this discussion are making it > impossible for us to talk about this project productively. > > Q
I think this is a good point in this budding flamewar to bring this up: http://lwn.net/Articles/370157/ Josh Berkus' patented ten-step method on how to free a project of unwelcome community involvement. (A little) more seriously, if the current trend towards secrecy at LL is a result of 3rd party viewers based on LL code "stealing" mindshare, it should be pointed that the developers of those viewers chose that route mainly as a result of LLs past lack of involvement with open source contributors, and (again, past) opaque and SLOW process of patch submission. To move this to a more productive direction, can you give a summary of what Firefly is, for those of us who weren't at your office hour? -- Thickbrick _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
