Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Open Developer Discussions

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Posted by Ben Adida on
I think Talli makes an excellent point. Transparency is difficult to
accomplish but is fairly important in the long run.

In the past few weeks, I've received a few murmurs of
disapproval concerning OpenForce's delay in releasing an initial
version of dotLRN. I suspect more people have this feeling and
are maybe reluctant to mention it. We've been struggling with the
right model for dotLRN because we need to do extremely rapid
development, but we also want community input and
participation (it is an open-source effort). It seemed to us that we
needed a solid base before we could fully open up the process. I
think we're reaching this solid base.

In the next couple of weeks, OpenForce is going to work hard to
reach this higher level of transparency. We're asking for
everyone's patience as we progressively add source code
availability, bug submission mechanisms, and eventually fully-
privileged external contributors. But we will get there, and we
have, of course, complete confidence that with a solid base of
code, complete openness is the way to go.