From b7c4dafd0071d4a9db6a74672cb3a6835b7865c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:38:22 +0000 Subject: Q77: Why are you developing X when you should be doing Y? git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@4515 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657 --- docs/FAQ | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/FAQ') diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index c303d14..dd94895 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -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.) -- cgit v1.1