On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:02:20AM +0100, G?ran Krampe wrote:
We all know how open source works and we all know that One Man (although his name is Eliot) can't match the strength of a strong open source team. You need to build a community/team around Cog, you can't just dump it on us and then expect all the Igors and Davids etc to dig in and learn it! It doesn't work that way, it takes time to grow a team and every day that Cog is under wraps is another day wasted growing that team.
IMHO, in this particular case, I think it really *does* work this way. Speaking just for myself, I think that if all the Cog work was in a public repository, there is very little that I could do to offer constructive help, and there is quite a lot that I might do that would be distracting.
Also, I think that open source is not just about source code, it's also about free access to ideas. Check out Eliot's blog if you want to see some real open source!
Dave