Plenty of work ahead [LWN.net]

Plenty of work ahead

Posted Dec 2, 2007 22:41 UTC (Sun) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Plenty of work ahead by dlang
Parent article: The first ATI r5xx/6xx X11 driver release

Absolutely correct... but it doesn't invalidate that we can get 3 or 4 projects doing the same
thing *early and often*, none gets to be *god enough* because of the waiting for input and the
lack of "will" for concentrated efforts... to the point that 3 different experiences gets to 3
different code repositorys with little chance of code intermingling... being the funny or
tragic fact that one is better at some features than the others, and vice versa, and the sum
of the three should had made a considerable better product while people are stucked with
buying $300 pieces for only using $100.

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Plenty of work ahead

Posted Dec 3, 2007 0:52 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

but if they all wait until they are 'finished' to release anything the result is none of them
every show up, there's no chance for them to pickup features from each other, and no chance
for new developers to build off of what's been done instead of starting from scratch.

I agree that there needs to be a will to keep working, but in this case there's no indication
of any lack of will, so it seems like you are spouting discouragement when what needs to
happen in to encourage them to keep going (by pure praise, bug reports, beta testing, or
coding), not fussing that the driver they released doesn't have all the features yet.