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--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
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> ... adding 2 more developers for core development
> would SLOW DOWN the development
Depends what is meant by "core" (IMO).
I think there are dozens of UI oriented (or other) "nice-to-haves"
that would really save hundreds and ultimately thousands of hours on
the user side that will never be prioritized for implementation while
AB has a single, sole developer.
Faced with a practical hard-limit of, say, 2500 developer-hours per
year, there are many useful potential enhancements that won't ever
make the cut - and for perfectly defensible reasons - given the
assumption of fixed maximum effort.
Even worse, of course, if the developer-hours per year drops off for
unexpected reasons.
IMO, it would be possible for another developer(s) to add specific,
helpful functionality without "diluting" core architecture extension
and design work.
Anything that saves time for users is leveraged across thousands of
users. It is unfortunate, IMO, whenever thousands of users endure
daily hassle or expense-of-time for something that could have been
corrected at the source with, say, a dozen (or 2) hours of developer
effort.
The experience of open source (in general) proves that multiple
developers can do alot of good for a product by working on different
items in different areas.
I'm not suggesting AB go public open source. I'm only saying that the
same tools (revision control systems, etc.) can be used for a
business's development to enable contributions by multiple developers
to be made to great benefit, with minimal (but non-zero!) disruption,
under terms set by the business in question.
Anyway, those are my thoughts, and they are all offered in general
terms. Some things do go undone under the current model, and
certainly some of what goes undone would be very nice to have.
Personally, I think it's a subject worth considering.
Nevertheless, AB remains the single best value in TA software
available. (The new Optimizer plug-in capability is FANTASTIC, but
that's another post :^).
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