Yet again in the line of fire...
(Did you even listen to the song?)If I tell you, why I think it's not good, you have to promise you won't shoot me afterwards (again) for my statement of opinion!
I think it's not good, not only for the end-user but for all of FG because
- the dev-power got divided
- as far as I can see, there is no intention to merge the progress back to FG. fgmembers is all input, no output. by design. Of course, the enduser can get it all, but what about flightgear.org? What is in it for the project?
- there is a hole in the communtiy, which wasn't there before
Now you can call me emotional, or whatever you want (as long as you don't shoot me), but I believe, this is a major problem in the environment of the community. And this has not so much to do with technical issues, but with human issues.
The most problematic issue I see, is the part of merging back (or not). If I go, download all planes ever made under a free license for FSX, put them in a repo and declare that this is from now on the official repo of FSX, and invite all developers to contribute to my new official repo - I wonder what would happen next...
Funny, how things seem so clear to me, changing only a word, and yet, others don't seem to see it... at least, that's my feeling... (and that's no attack! I'd call it an observation. I don't mean to say, someone is slow, or stupid or sth. It's just funny, how perception is a very subjective matter!)
To end this one, (and I wanted to do this for a while, but it never came this point) I'd like to thank Israel, for raising hard questions last year (or so) on the devel-list. Really! Those were hard questions, and we all had our hands full to find some good answers. In the process, quite a bit changed! I hope he had the time to see those changes, looking at this warzone, I get my doubts, but hope dies last!
Peace!
...and no one throws a stone, until I say so!
...Jehova! Jehova!
(sorry, couldn't resist!)