On 1/13/16 1:11 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
Alternatively, my opinion is that Chris would get more help if the project were open sourced. Now instead of recruiting volunteers, he will have contributors. This allows for a lot more flexibility. For example, a ham in one part of the world is stuck at home on a rainy weekend is setting up an AMPR system and encounters a bug. Meanwhile, Chris is enjoying a weekend away from the computer in a part of the world with more favorable weather. With an open source project, the first ham can dig around for the bug and send Chris a patch without any pre-approval. When Chris returns, he can vet the patch before applying it to the SVN [or whatever technology] repo. This significantly lowers the bar for volunteers and administration.
If the portal is open sourced, expect a patch from me within the first week.
+1
The other point I'll make is I have no interest in helping out with a non-open source project. If you want to continue with sponsoring a close source project, don't expect many people to want to help.
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