[openbeos] Re: OS Propaganda.... A new world order!
- From: "David Reid" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 01:17:22 +0100
If you're an experience programmer then why not help by looking over the CVS
commits? Often silly code errors or logic problems get spotted that way much
sooner than testing will reveal. Also, you have the chance to help get
better code. faster way of doing something, yell! Safer way of doing
something - yell!
There's plenty you can do really :)
The CVS mail list is open to everyone AFAIK...
david
----- Original Message -----
From: "Junk" <crapmail@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 12:10 AM
Subject: [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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