[openbeos] Re: OS Propaganda.... A new world order!

I appreciate the time you guys have taken to respond to my ramblings.  I
am one of those lurkers.  I would like to get involved, but am a
windows(Borland, even) C, C++, Delphi programmer so I have little to no
experience.  I'm hoping I can get read access or anonymous access and
take a look at the source code.  I see you have an article on accessing
the CVS and I'm trying to find one of my computers that I can get BeOS
up and running on and I'm going to take it from there.  Hopefully, I'll
either be able to contribute some code or some debugging or something to
the project.

-----Original Message-----
From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Axel Dörfler
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:43 PM
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [openbeos] Re: OS Propaganda.... A new world order!

> 3) OpenTracker is moving too slowly.
> Whoa. The reason that OT isn't moving so fast is that the maintainer 
> (Axel) was the major guy on OBFS. Without BGA and he, there would be *
NO* OBFS. Yes, OT is kind of "on hold" for the moment. But some small 
features are being added and it is very solid and stable. There are far 
bigger fish to fry. Also, I think that there is a lot of uncertainty 
about what the desktop *should* look like. No one knows what the "next 
big thing" in UI will be.

Of course, that's only one part of the story - it's not that I would 
have a ton of patches waiting for me to check them in; there aren't 
many developers doing active work on OT either.

I am the maintainer, but that doesn't mean that I would have to do all 
the work by myself - of course I will do, because I have great plans, 
but if there were 10 dedicated people sitting on it, it would progress 
a bit faster ;-)

OTOH I've stated most of my plans, I have some people wanting to help 
me, Hugo Santos is working on getting SVG support (vectorized icons) 
into Tracker, etc.

There is definitely work going on, but it may take some time before 
everyone will see the results.

Furthermore, Tracker is already a great product - it's working very 
nice, and is very convenient to use, so it's not a big problem that it 
doesn't progress as fast as other software, or system components.

Having said that, stay tuned :-)

Adios...
   Axel.

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