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author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2004-04-19 13:38:22 +0000 |
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Q77: Why are you developing X when you should be doing Y?
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@@ -688,3 +688,24 @@ A76: It means you have more files in a single directory than you have another setting for the file filter, or insert the USB and extract it again 4) Turn it off and on again + +Q77: Why are you developing X when you should be doing Y? +A77: You make the common mistake of confusing Rockbox development with that of + commercial projects. There is not much of an agenda for the development + of Rockbox. Anyone who wants to write new features can do that. + + If there is a current "huge emphasis" on the X functionality, it is + because one or more developers, decided he/they wanted to write it. It's + not because "Rockbox project management" decided function X is a more + important feature than anything else. + + That is the nature of Free Software: People write code that scratches + their own itches, or that simply is fun to write. Everybody working with + Rockbox is doing it for fun. A wide or narrow audience actually has only + little bearing on the choice of features to implement. + + The moment someone with a bit of time to spare and the necessary + programming skills (or a will to learn them) feels function Y is a + sufficiently useful feature, it will be written. + + (That could be you.) |