You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by "Peter B. West" <pb...@powerup.com.au> on 2002/07/30 02:20:32 UTC
Work on HEAD
Keiron,
It's easy for the designers to underestimate the size of the hurdle that
potential developers must negotiate to get up to speed on a project of
the complexity of FOP. It would be difficult if we were all sitting in
the same room. Casual contributors much prefer to tinker with code that
is already working; there's a shorter path to productive contributions.
If you can corral a group of interested potential developers, I think
you will need to spend the vast majority of your time developing the
developers, rather than the design. Lots of very detailed and
re-iterative design discussion, heavy use of your favourite drawing
tools, and chat time.
I know I'm repeating myself, and I know that I am working on a design
strand that is much farther away from the existing code than you are,
but I would like to see the re-design go forward, and I think potential
contributors need a lot more encouragement.
Peter
Keiron Liddle wrote:
> (One day I will convince someone to help out with HEAD code)
--
Peter B. West pbwest@powerup.com.au http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest
"Lord, to whom shall we go?"
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-dev-unsubscribe@xml.apache.org
For additional commands, email: fop-dev-help@xml.apache.org