One thing I've noticed recently is that there is no central organization of OSG-related code that is not part of the actual core OSG SVN.
I'm referring to both complete projects (things like osgAL, osgVRPN, etc) and just snippets like "here's a visitor that squooshes models into mashed potatoes". There's alot of stuff in various FAQs, in forum threads and other random places. I'm thinking it might take two forms. one would be a section of the Wiki for code snippets, organized by some sort of categorization. This is pretty easy. The second part is more complex. As an analogy, if we consider the Linux kernel versus a Linux distribution (like Debian for example). OSG is currently like the kernel -- it needs to be complete and internally consistently tested. A new kernel should have no bugs in the portions of code considered the "kernel", but doesn't especially care about failures relating to things outside the kernel but considered part of the "distribution". As an example, Linus doesn't especially worry about whether a kernel change breaks a distribution application like, for example, KOffice. What i'm trying to get it is I think it would be good to draw together some of the more significant OSG-related projects (like osgAL, etc, project maintainers willing) and perhaps host them on the main OSG SVN and wiki, but NOT have them be considered an official part of the OSG "kernel". What I'm trying to achieve is offering new (and existing!) developers a more complete picture of what's available for OSG, WITHOUT incurring any new testing and maintenance load for Robert. These new parts might not be able to be fully maintained (we just don't have the people to do this), but we could perhaps note when they were last verified to be functional with the current OSG, and what OSG version that was. -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
