Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...

[Muhammad Hussein Nasrollahpour]

On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Doc O'Leary <droleary@5usenet2013.subsume.com> 
wrote:

> In article <mailman.1962.1379003464.10748.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
> Doug Simons <doug.simons@testplant.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 12, 2013, at 4:03 AM, David Chisnall wrote:
>> 
>>> We could almost certainly provide them with an automated tool that they can 
>>> run on their codebase that would give them a pretty clear idea of the OS X 
>>> APIs that they use.  Actually, providing such a tool with the ability to 
>>> produce a report against the current version of GNUstep showing what is 
>>> missing would be very helpful for a lot of projects.
>> 
>> If such a tool could be produced, I think it would be a tremendous asset for 
>> GNUstep. I suspect there are plenty of developers of applications for OS X 
>> who would be interested in porting to GNUstep but are put off by the 
>> daunting 
>> task involved in making the effort, especially knowing that there are almost 
>> certainly some things missing but not knowing how extensive those gaps might 
>> be.
> 
> I disagree.  What you want to do is engage developers as much as 
> possible with as little effort as possible.  Don't give them a tool that 
> has them holding GNUstep at arms length like a stinky diaper.  Instead, 
> you have to make the porting effort less daunting from the get-go.  Or, 
> rather, make the effort in line with the reward.  Like Graham said, many 
> developers won't be bothered with even zero effort mainly, I think, 
> because they expect zero reward.

Completely agree. We shouldn't engage developers in a lot of effort.

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