Suggestion:- the API - the thin interface layer - should be controlled
by the MMA.
The SDK - the classes that sit on either side of it which people use to
actually develop plugs and hosts - should be hosted somewhere more open.
The standard, and the tools used to work with it, need not be developed
or controlled by the same people.
Best regards,
Angus.Tim Hockin wrote:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:56:00PM -0500, Ron Kuper wrote:
I was imagining public read-only access to the evolving code and
continuing public commentary and discussion on this list. Membership
would be required to actively contribute code, and there would be a
separate contributors mailing list hosted privately within the MMA.
So the public can't have the right to send us code? Or a patch? Or ideas? What's the point of being open?
If it is open, anyone should be able to contribute, albeit with access control. No open source project is a free-for-all, they are all controlled like you describe, just without the requirement that you pay for the right to contribute.
If we're going to do this in public, which I think we should, then we should allow code and ideas from all-comers. If the MMA is to play a role in this AT ALL, it is as a conduit for letting "the industry" feel like they have more control than the average joe. It doesn't mean that anyone who works at Steinberg can check in to the code base. All it does is give their opinion a very little extra bit of weight.
That doesn't mean open checkin rights, it means a steering group of core maintainers, a larger group (this group) of "senators", and an unlimited group of worker bees (anyone who wants can look at the code and find problems or ideas).
So this is why I am still on the fence about doing this under the MMA. It really does nothing but but raise money for the MMA. It doesn't make the effort any more or less legitimate, except in the eyes of the MMA, and it potentially excludes other worthwile contributors.
Still noodlign it..
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