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To learn more about how the project works, please see [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=15267#p149971 this short essay] written by Thorsten, for a more detailed article see [[How the FlightGear project works]]. | To learn more about how the project works, please see [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=15267#p149971 this short essay] written by Thorsten, for a more detailed article see [[How the FlightGear project works]]. | ||
=== YASim looking for a new maintainer === | |||
{{cquote|There are some pending merge requests to add some Yasim features, but we have an issue that since none of the current C++ developers own, or are experts in Yasim, we're reluctant to be the person who merges such changes, and potentially introduces subtle regressions. | |||
Obviously this is chicken-and-egg, since no one can become expert enough in the code to become a maintainer :) | |||
So, I'm more than happy to apply patches *providing* I can be convinced they are sane+reasonable from a pure code perspective (happy to help with that, too, | |||
if people are new to C++), and providing we have some assurance that a representative sample of yasim aircraft are unchanged or improved by the patch. | |||
Suggestions for that means in practice, are most welcome! | |||
Otherwise I worry, given the nature of the solver, we'll keep optimising the solver for some aircraft, and making other existing aircraft worse - until someone tests them, and announced that they're no longer working.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg23986.html | |||
|title=YASim and documentation | |||
|author=James Turner |date= Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:54:43 -0700}}</ref>|James Turner}} | |||
{{cquote|I am still broadly happy to answer questions if posed (as long as I remember enough to come up with a meaningful answer). Just cc: me if you do, because my | |||
latencies here are measured in weeks. | |||
Bugs can always be fixed. What YASim needs is a maintainer, not really expertise per se. The latter comes from the former.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg23986.html | |||
|title=YASim and documentation | |||
|author=Andy Ross |date= Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:54:43 -0700}}</ref>|Andy Ross}} | |||
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=== Call for volunteers === | === Call for volunteers === | ||