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Making this forum public
In some ways, I think making this forum writable by normal users would be a good idea, as there are several technically-minded users who could contribute useful ideas. We could move non-technical threads easily enough to other forums.
What do you all think?
What do you all think?
I think a lot people would misuse this forum too much. Therefore I disagree.
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Post all your patches and feature requests here.
Post all your patches and feature requests here.
Yeah, I myself have been kinda wary of OpenTTD development practices - it's supposed to be "open" source, yet only certain "active" developers can access SVN or be in the SourceForge list . Seems a bit closed to me . . .
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You cannot have everyone on the Sourceforge list, now can you? You can still add new patches, suggestions, bugs, etc. Having 20 administrators is never a good thing.CobraA1 wrote:Yeah, I myself have been kinda wary of OpenTTD development practices - it's supposed to be "open" source, yet only certain "active" developers can access SVN or be in the SourceForge list . Seems a bit closed to me . . .
Altough sometimes, I would like SVN access to add my own patches without waiting for someone to finally get online, I still think that is good. Imagine 20 people all of them adding their own patches without any control. It WILL be a huge mess. It's much better to have a few people that look through the patch and accept it, so that the source doesn't become a big-pile-o-s***. The only "active" developers that can access SVN is ludde/vurlix . Bjarni, and dominik, who also have access, can only make small changes (specific to their OS) or makefilechanges. Technically they could add all kinds of changes, but it's always better to have the head-developer, ludde, take a look at it, before anything major changes.
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yeah, current system works out nicely. Although I do like this part of the forums open, as long as we get some nice healthyly debates, and ideas. But openttd is very open when it comes to working with patches and ideas, just swing by IRC and can see some of the discussions at times.
But yeah, if you have some source code you'd like to see in openttd, post it in Patch Tracking System. And ludde is usually around just have to poke enough.
But yeah, if you have some source code you'd like to see in openttd, post it in Patch Tracking System. And ludde is usually around just have to poke enough.
On the other end of the spectrum, BZFlag has 50 people on the developers lists, and I'm still in it, even I haven't contributed for quite some time.
I suppose it's a philisophical thing, but having more developers isn't always "a mess". I haven't really seen that in Open Source projects, even ones with large numbers of developers.
But, whatever you feel comfortable with, go with it.
I suppose it's a philisophical thing, but having more developers isn't always "a mess". I haven't really seen that in Open Source projects, even ones with large numbers of developers.
But, whatever you feel comfortable with, go with it.
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it's not only ludde, who applies the patches. It really depends on what they are. If somebody applies mac specific stuff (nobody have done that since I got svn access ), I would apply itfortis wrote:yeah, current system works out nicely. Although I do like this part of the forums open, as long as we get some nice healthyly debates, and ideas. But openttd is very open when it comes to working with patches and ideas, just swing by IRC and can see some of the discussions at times.
But yeah, if you have some source code you'd like to see in openttd, post it in Patch Tracking System. And ludde is usually around just have to poke enough.
This way, we take the load of ludde/vurlix for them to do the big issues in the code, and the porters are often those, who know their OS specific stuff
and I agree, that svn access should be limited to some people to avoid messy code.
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