Barbatos, on 21 May 2014 - 09:09 AM, said:
I've put the engine on Github in order to see if coders would jump in and start helping. So far they haven't. Community coders keep bitching about the Updater but I haven't seen any commit / pull request from them so far - and it is open source.
We don't see any benefit as to opening the codebase as long as we don't see coders involved in our open source projects.
See, and this is what you don't understand. I have explained this in another thread already, but let's go again.
Open Source != Open Development
A lot of people think that way... "if I dump my code on github, there should be a mass invasion of coders". Dumping the code anywhere is not really a sign of "please collaborate". Not at all. Instead you seem to already have alienated some potentially interested people here.
Open Source alone does not attract anyone. It's the way a project is managed, how it interacts with the community, how professional they are in terms of tools and contribution-friendly workflow and how they treat _potential_ contributors. Open Source is a prerequisite of this, but alone... it's not worth much.
You are not showing an attitude here that does give potential contributors a good feeling. Instead, they will contribute to projects like OpenMW, unvanquished etc which have a real Open Development workflow.
Even worse... you actually expect contributors to take the time to "prove" themselves in order to get "full" access and be able to really make a difference. No. People will just collaborate to other projects instead, unless they are ultra hardcore fans. And even those guys seem to ragequit a lot in your community.
So in the end... all this "effort" will not improve any of that, until you actually do Open Development.
This post has been edited by hasufell: 06 June 2014 - 01:41 PM