Jose timofonic wrote:
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> --- Petr Janda <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au>
> escribió:
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>> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:44:48 +1100
>>> Petr Janda <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au> wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> I think you are being slightly absurd. If you
>>>>         
>> want DragonFly to go into 
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>>>> businesses/corporations you have to be prepared
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>> they *have* demands , 
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>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> 	Nobody has any business making demands of
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>> volunteers.
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>>>   
>>>       
>>>> and they are much bigger than mine "is it gonna
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>> be branched today as 
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>>>> planned",
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>>>>         
>>> 	Personally I would much rather see branching and
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>> releases happening
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>>> when the developers feel it is ready to happen
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>> than on a planned date.
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>>> 	That being said the DragonFLy team seems to do
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>> better at hitting
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>>> the planned dates than most commercial OS
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>> developments.
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>>>   
>>>       
>> I don't make the demands but I am demanded by my
>> clients to satisfy them 
>> by supplying them a good product. If it was entirely
>> up to me I wouldnt 
>> be making the inquiries at all(I dont care if its
>> released in january or 
>> 3 months later) but I have clients, hence why Ive
>> often turned to 
>> FreeBSD when DF was missing a feature which I
>> needed. Therefore I might 
>> be sounding to have demanding tone, but thats
>> because DF is my personal 
>> OS of choice and especially because of my clients.
>> (not that they 
>> specifically request DF but because thats what I
>> offer them + maintenance).
>>
>> My apologies.
>>
>> Petr
>>
>>     
>
> I'm an early newbie and not having clue about
> development but... Have you considered to pay
> developers for having those exact branching dates and
> features you want for your clients? If you receive
> something for free, I think you can't demand
> something. If you pay explicitely for it (and I don't
> mean just donations), then you can.
>
> As I've seen as in my stupid user experience on other
> projects, it's better to not give dates when you are
> unsure to comply them. Then is better to give
> approximately dates thinking in the worst situation,
> so if it's released earlier it will look like a nice
> surprise ;)
>
>
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I've already been doing it in a way as the *context functions come out 
of my pocket. I sort of don't see point in pay for branching dates 
though as they are inevitable (as in they will always happen at some 
stage). As I said before I'm gonna have to push the deadline by a couple 
of days or I will update to 1.8 remotely (which i wanted to avoid in 
first place since who knows how that server will take it)

Petr