[openbeos] Re: Progress reports

Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
> An active, "hands dirty" community and frequent progress updates are 
> probably a great way to attract more developers, but of course you can 
> just be a "lean back" community and maybe get your R1 in 2014 (I actually 
> believe it'll be in 2012) and your oh-so-great R2 in 2025, so you can 
> sway in nostalgia while other people already use Minority Report-like 
> interfaces.

Oh you mean the one where you need to take a break every 3 minutes because 
your arms hurt? And then need to take another break every 30 minutes 
because you need to sit down for a change? :-)

> Or you can get your hands dirty and make Haiku a more attractive project 
> for new developers. Not that I'd believe that Haiku will ever innovate 
> into an interesting direction, but most of you seemed to care about this 
> tiny little irrelevant OS.
> 
> ;)
> 
> Well, I'm wasting my time here.

:-) What if some people think that making these progress reports is not 
"relevant" enough to attract actual developers?

Seriously, your attempt to motivate in all honour, I doubt a little that 
the make-feel-bad strategy will give good results. Instead, I believe that 
Haiku will have to do this for itself: We seriously need the first alpha. 
Unfortunately, there will not be many obvious "must have this" features on 
the surface. So Haiku will hopefully attract developers that can look 
deeper and see the potential and appreciate the lack of quite a few 
annoying things you have to live with when using the other operating 
systems. At least that is what motivates me and I think a few other Haiku 
devs. And there has got to be some minds who think alike in this huge 
world. If you don't agree with this, then please at least accept the fact 
that different people believe different things will help the project best. 
That's actually a good thing, since it will broaden the kind of attempts 
that people do make to help the project to more popularity. And there are 
quite a few people who help the project in various ways, not just 
developers. During my time with Haiku, I observe the support getting 
stronger. IMHO, the event with the single biggest impact will be the 
release of the alpha. I believe we should do that one as soon as Haiku is 
actually stable enough to do development work, regardless of how 
easy/smooth it is to install.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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