On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:40 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 14:22:18 Krishnakant wrote:
Good observation and thanks for your feedback.
I have a question regarding your development model. Normally in an open source product, development is carried out in trunk, releases are frozen in tags and major sidelines are done in branches. Trunk is always available for anonymous checkout for those who wish to test/use the app and contribute too.
In this case there appears to be a veil of secrecy around the project. Rony kept hinting about it, but no information seemed to be readily available. Even now I am unable to checkout the trunk. This is very much against the philosophy of commit early and commit often. For example, the database password issue - the patch is still not available in the svn even though it is 24 hours since the issue was raised.
There is no secrecy. We actually want to get some code out and a product that will work. Now the onlything we don't have is a proper deb and rpm packaging. The svn server was having some very serious problems off late and it just last week that things got fixt.
Never the less your feedback could be taken more seriously if you start posting to the GNUKhata Mailing list. I did not understand the relation between software being GPL and you not able to help. That sounded like "can't help a project since it is protecting freedom of every one". May be I am wrong but I need clearification, just out of curiosity.
happy hacking. Krishnakant.