Core Developers - Request for feedback

[Jonathon Suggs]

Thanks for the quick response!  It is encouraging to know that the
people behind the project are actively involved in the mailing list and
answering questions.

We understand (at least I hope we all do) that you guys are working very
hard.  There are so many aspects to a project like this and keeping the
community informed is just one of them.

I'm learning quite a bit about OpenEmbedded from various sources on the
net, and will try to post back any good resources I come across.  That
is one thing that I hope this list (and wiki) will be a good resource
for.

Thanks again!

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 13:03 +0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> On 1/28/07 12:24 PM, "Jonathon Suggs" <jsuggs at murmp.com> wrote:
> 
> > I just wanted to say that (so far) this is turning out to be a great
> > mail list.  There are great ideas coming out and some good dialog.
> > 
> > The reason I post is to ask this basic but loaded question.  Who is
> > "leading" the software development force?  There are probably quite a
> > few of us that are programmers on this list that are going to want to
> > start writing some code.  But from just the few posts (APIs, profiles,
> > etc) who is going to lay down the law and say that "X" is going to be
> > the recommended/default/standard way to do "Y"?
> > 
> > We all have good ideas, but if we just start running in all directions
> > we are going to end up being counter productive.
> 
> I think it's OK. Weak ideas tend to get filtered out pretty quick with
> enough intelligent minds working together. Really I like to watch things
> grow more or less organically based on a few basic principles.
>  
> > One of the great things about a project like this is that anyone can
> > lend a hand.  But while things are starting out, we really don't know
> > who knows what, how things work, or even where to look.
> > 
> > Are any of the "core developers" listening on this list?  We aren't
> > expecting you to follow this and respond to all of the questions, but we
> > could use some guidance (and possibly some "laying down of the law").
> > As for now, I think we can all agree that your time is better spend
> > getting things ready for the upcoming releases.  But if there are
> > already some of these methods in place, is there anywhere that we can go
> > to start getting some things documented?
> 
> Michael "Mickey" Lauer is our lead architect for applications and framework.
> Harald Welte is our lead architect for system level. These guys both try to
> keep up on the list but we're all super busy getting to phase 0 and then
> into phase 1. Just know that we do read _every_ post. Sometimes with a bit
> more latency than we'd like though ;-)
>  
> > Sorry if we are just getting overly excited, but we are all kinda
> > grasping at straws.  Any tidbits of information will help make these
> > discussions be more productive.
> 
> Mickey's going to work more on telling you about our specific OE setup. But
> please give him a bit more time. We're really overloaded at this point.
>  
> > Again, keep the posts coming!
> 
> Same to you!
> 
> -Sean
>