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.
Since it is GPLed, I may not be able to contribute code, but being a person who has worked at getting a good FA package for linux for India for the past 10 years, I feel I can help a lot by giving feedback, testing and suggesting. As of now, I cannot even install the application because it would mean exposing my db superuser password - my machine is connected to the internet.