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RockboxPlayerV1 - Free/Open hardware audio player for Rockbox
Llorean:
I want everyone to stop right now, and define clearly who this project is, who is allowed to speak, and what the "unchangeable" goals are, so that nobody wastes any more time thinking it's a community project and then gets told they're not allowed to speak or attempt to contribute.
Who is allowed to speak? What can we not make suggestions about improving because of "objectives"?
casainho:
--- Quote from: Llorean on February 21, 2008, 05:59:16 PM ---I want everyone to stop right now, and define clearly who this project is, who is allowed to speak, and what the "unchangeable" goals are, so that nobody wastes any more time thinking it's a community project and then gets told they're not allowed to speak or attempt to contribute.
Who is allowed to speak? What can we not make suggestions about improving because of "objectives"?
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There is a list of people in the main project page, under title: People that are interested and can help.
And everyone can speak, however I personally don't have infinite time to read all, instead I prefer to focus on whats I think is important, so I will ignore some talks that I think that are not important.
And I think the things here are like what RB developers usually say to people that are just chatting and asking: "Ports are made by people who want to port, they are not done on request." --> here the same, hardware is made and decided by who do it, not on request. So It's a community project - IMO, the community is who make, work and will decided.
Llorean:
But anyone can add themselves to that list.
There's a major difference here: With Rockbox, we don't need to sell the project to other people. With your hardware, you need to make a certain number before it's cheap enough to be reasonable to manufacture. This means you must take an interest in what's most likely to make more people willing to buy one.
You alone do not get to decide what is or isn't important. If you do, you need to say clearly "This is my project, I will make all final decisions." Otherwise you're going to make other people waste THEIR time, because they don't know that you value your own time more than theirs, and don't care about their interests.
Unless the ONLY people spending money will be the designers, the community is "those who will buy" not "those who will work."
AlexP:
--- Quote from: casainho on February 21, 2008, 05:18:06 PM ---I will not discuss nothing with you since you are not in the project. About screen, I will discuss It with who will implement that on hardware. There are registered opinions about screen, we will have them in account when deciding about it - also the same for the other things.
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This is unnecessarily rude in my opinion, and furthermore I take it then that if I edit that wiki page and add myself to the list I can talk?!
You really need to look up community in a dictionary. Either you want opinions or you don't. It doesn't seem like you do. That is fine, but in that case this is NOT a rockbox player, it is a casainho player, and you should designate it as such.
Llorean:
And as a note, Rockbox still accepts feature requests. And we still work on things *we* don't need, because it would benefit other people. And we even actually *justify* why we reject things. By explaining what it would harm to do it that way, and why we think it's not beneficial to the project to accept that feature request.
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