JohnFredC wrote:Does Pierre want this sort of fine-grained forum participation in his development process? I don't get a sense that he is moving toward an open-source/crowd development paradigm.
Or have I missed something or misunderstood what is meant in this thread by "project management"?
The main thing which bugs me is that there are, as I said,
Long-lasting but very easy to fix bugs / problems which means to me that we need a list to (re)mind us what was done and what not
...this doesn't mean that he needs to open the code but he certainly should be more aware about what stops him to gain more users.
We are in a big overproduction crisis, our market is close to the level of commodity and the competition is fierce.
If he wants to stay in business he must be very focused on the users' needs. He must cover much better than the others the needs of his user base and then his user base will help him to survive by giving him
goodwill / reputation - which he needs most now, spread the word, donations / sponsorship, free R & D /
crowdsourcing etc. This has nothing to do with the open-source, even if, indeed, many FOSS projects use this model.
(Almost)
all big players in IT use these. Nobody can do it alone anymore. They have big trackers directly linked to these forums, either internal (like Microsoft et al.) either a voting and keywording system in the very same forums like Adobe (see the link in the prev. proposition) and ACDSee (which uses the same social engine with Adobe).
The (ideal?) thing which I imagine is a global informational structure - that's why I posted in one of my prev. posts a link to Apache's Bloodhound - in which the developer should see immediately something like "There's a need to finish first the A thing for which I need to implement the B, C, D which has the following dependencies: B1, B2, C1, C2 etc. which comes from the discussions on topics Ax, Bx, By, Cx"
IMHO we must minimize the changes of the requirements, we must streamline the development workflow.
That's why I post my request (more or less) in logical order of implementation and much more in front of the developer's ability to implement and always I give hints (in the limited space of the forums) how one can implement this. He must know what lies ahead.
m. Th.
- Dark Themed XnViewMP 1.7.1 64bit on Win11 x64 -
{big sheepish grin}
...but do you think that's better to have a modern project management software (which includes also a bug-tracker) for XnViewMP?
