On Feb 27, 2013 4:31 PM, "Clemens" <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My main point is that there is no incentive to develop a R2 feature at the moment because the time a R2 feature can ever be used or integrated is undefined, it might be this year, it might be >3 years. If a completed R2 feature does not break beos compatibility, I don't see why it couldn't be included in R1. > All developers who not want or can work on R1, for what ever reason, are block from contributing anything. To say people are blocked from contributing anything is flat out incorrect. Something more accurate would be 'anything that breaks BeOS R5 compatibility is blocked'. There are plenty of applications, both within Haiku's tree and 3rd party applications that need a helping hand. Improving Haiku's ecosystem will even help the chicken and the egg problem -- people not wanting to contribute (to Haiku or 3rd party apps) because there's no existing software. --mmadia