Less new projects?
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:42 pm
Moved over from here: https://www.xcore.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 066#p10066
The change to open source the software on github was a great move. But I think it is much harder now to find the components you need for your project.
In my opinion some additional information (wiki page/blog post - somewhere prominent) could help:
- what is avail on github
- why is it there
- how to use the new build structure
- how to participate
- how to share so that your code is usable for others too
some central page listing and explaining all the different modules out there on github could help a lot too. I think a lot of people are perhaps still relying on the software listings on xmos.com http://www.xmos.com/applications/software-components
I find especially the new make file structure hard to understand (it works great and is a good idea - no question about it).
In the recent time I really got the impression that the community shifted strongly towards experts. Perhaps the really great shift towards the open source intiative makes everything harder to understand.
Or am I wrong?
It could also be that the XMOS eco system has changed a lot in the last year. Intended to make everything easier (which it does) but makes it harder for new users:phalt wrote:I believe the time of year was a big contributing factor to the drop and I've spent a long time looking at why it occurred. It could be that new users do not feel their projects are worthy of uploading because they are too basic or simple compared to some of the previous Project of the Month winners.It would also be of great interest why there is a big drop in projects. Summer is always a bad time for projects, but what keeps users from developing xmos projects (my reason: time, will be fixed)
It's good to see my hope for competitions to entice new users was brought up by some of you because that's exactly what I'd like to incorporate!
The change to open source the software on github was a great move. But I think it is much harder now to find the components you need for your project.
In my opinion some additional information (wiki page/blog post - somewhere prominent) could help:
- what is avail on github
- why is it there
- how to use the new build structure
- how to participate
- how to share so that your code is usable for others too
some central page listing and explaining all the different modules out there on github could help a lot too. I think a lot of people are perhaps still relying on the software listings on xmos.com http://www.xmos.com/applications/software-components
I find especially the new make file structure hard to understand (it works great and is a good idea - no question about it).
In the recent time I really got the impression that the community shifted strongly towards experts. Perhaps the really great shift towards the open source intiative makes everything harder to understand.
Or am I wrong?