Hello Chris
On 10/01/2005, you wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:12:25 +0100, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
wrote:
Christophe Ochal wrote:
There seems to be a theme amongst the posts of some of the list members, i.e let's get organized. Unfortunaly, we haven't all gotten together and deceided to run the project.
After the vote we'll be able to move forward faster i hope
Unfortunately there's 3 "I have no experience" and 1 "I have no time" on the list. Not a good sign. :-(
Well, we do the best with what we have. We have alot of intellegent and knowledgeable people here. Some have experience with software development and porting projects. As long as the Project Lead listens to the suggestions and opinions of the project members, we shouldn't do too bad. The big thing is not to rush it. Obviously, this is going to be a learning experience for quite a few people. Which is a good thing as it give that experience back in to the Amiga Community to build on. Which, I hope, will lead to other projects. We also have to remember that this is not a port it and that's it. It's going to be an on going project that will need support and updating. The big part is the port. That's how I see it.
It's not only porting the application, as you said, a team will have to keep track of changes in the official branch, and port those changes back into out port, support channels will have to be set up for the AmigaOS version, articles written & translated, perhaps even file loaders for Amiga specific applications (i'm thinking of ex given importing Final Copy, Final Writer, Wordworth, Amigawriter etc etc).
It's an inmense project, aslong as we know that, and aknowledge that, then i think we can do it.
It's when people start underestimating things that things go bad.
Regards