[haiku-commits] Re: Puh, it's quiet in here...

  • From: Clemens <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:24 +1200

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:14:51 +1200, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 19.08.2011 15:07, Philippe Houdoin wrote:
While some people are finishing a Summer Of Code, some others have a
Summer of No-Code indeed.

Pretty much.

Or maybe we need some new fresh project to keep the fire well alive,
and working on Haiku the operating system alone is not a good
motivation anymore. Like a teenage crisis.
Maybe it's time to think about an Haiku Apps spinoff. The recent
survey results shows there is a most-wanted spot here.

I think we need more students with plenty of time on their fingers and no other duties ;-)

But seriously, many of the low hanging fruit is gone now, and also not less importantly, introducing new things is always problematic as you can see with the discussions about session management. And working on new and interesting stuff is always a nice motivation :-)

Many of the issues left in Haiku require a lot of time to figure out. And that's nothing that I can currently come up with. Haiku is running pretty well for me mostly, and the things that annoy me are rather complicated to solve.

Because of that, IMHO its very important to add some new branches (literally) with low hanging fruits. Layout manager and local kit introduced some easy to fix stuff and got many people involved. Same would be right for session manager. Think composite manager would also encourage some guys to experiment...

Regards,
        Clemens

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