26 Sep
2011
26 Sep
'11
6:26 p.m.
2011/9/26 Aleksandar Kovač <alex.open.design@...400...>:
The term '3rd party' gives me the chills. Reminds me more of corporatespeak than opensource.
And that's another problem with the proposal: we are community after all. Well, actually, 3rd party development is OK when there is a strong core team, but we are kinda stuck in between old and new core team, and 3rd party development is going to make matters only worse.
We have a good track record of sponsored development, both community based (Tav's work on the Text tool), private (Measure tool and type design stuff in 0.49) and GSoC (anno 2005). There's little to no sense to go for 3rd party.
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org