Re: "Center" forums restrictions
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:48 pm
How so? If you take a look at Eclipse for instance, it is very much an OpenSource software, and we currently have release 4.3.1 there, and you can trace back through a linear sequence of releases.vlad wrote:I can't imagine "linear sequence of releases", it's something unrelated to open software development.
Look at Apache, Php, OpenOffice, Pentaho or OTRS, and you will find the same to be true. They have version/release numbers, and that's because they have a linear sequence of "stable" or "finished" releases.
But if you take one version of f.i. OpenOffice and then do your own project, that's fine, and you can do it. You will have to use a different name, though, like LibreOffice, for instance, and you will there have your linear releases.
If you take StarOffice, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, they form a tree. And since multiple user-developers probably have made their own subversions, that tree does not only have 3 branches, of which 1 is actually dead.
So, how are linear releases unrelated to open software development?
vlad wrote: P.S. Still, as I said before, you can do it in your authentic way. Thanks for detailed explanation.
I'm not sure we talk about different things. Maybe it is just a translation or word usage issue.
I wrote:
So, of course, the contribution (analysing further devolopments and bugs, fixing bugs and actually doing development, testing, writing of documentation and so on) of the whole community is wanted, needed and welcome.Work on such a release is not only done by center members, but of the whole community, but it is the center members who finally decide what changes and additions make it into the finished release. The user-adapted distributions basically form a tree with the center-distribution, and "good ideas" and "bug fixes" done by the wider community are integrated into the center distribution, if the center members see the value thereof.
But just as not the whole LibreOffice-Community makes final decisions and publishes releases (but rather the Open Document Foundation), it is not the whole community BB that should and could make final decisions in this project, but rather the Center.
I think this is very much how most OpenSource projects I know operate, AFAIK.
If you see things differently, please explain, so that we both can weigh the arguments and both can learn.