Understanding the project

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This page is intended to list ideas for articles that are intended to help address long-standing issues and debates, such as for example:

• "entry point" articles:
  • troubleshooting/end-user support
  • volunteering
  • contributing
  • core development
• a more modular base package [1]
• backward compatibility
• JSBSim vs. YASim
• Having too many unfinished/incomplete aircraft
• Why we have fictional aircraft
• GPL requirements
• Placeholder mentality WRT to contributions
• Aircraft ratings contributed by end-users
• why we don't have custom GUI tools for things like developing aircraft/scenery, but use Blender, GRASS/QGIS, GIMP etc
• why we tend to focus on infrastructure and building blocks instead of developing end-user features
• why contributions should be granted directly to the project, to prevent people from "pulling" their contributions once they disagree with other contributors (c.f. grtux, vitos, i4dnf)
• HLA/RTI repercussions WRT circumventing the GPL unless we adopt the AGPL