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Hockey wrote:patrikG: I get the idea behind RERO. Really I do - it's not rocket science.
No, you don't.
Here is our use of RERO (in my place of work):
The trunk of a project must contain only functioning code, i.e. code that passes it's test cases. When we are working, as soon as what we are working on passes, it is committed to it's branch, then when the reason for the branch creation is satisfied, we merge to trunk. This is a release.
And Maugrim, the RERO you discuss is actually something very new -- it has happened in our lifetimes. The combination of technologies like the Internet, tools like SourceForge and languages like HTML, Javascript and PHP means that many, many more ideas can enter the ecosystem as actual code. Completion and evolution can then occur. And as you say, a project that is not popular can still provide usefulness to a sometimes very small group of people. Previously, software needed to leap a financial barrier to reach people ... we live in much more interesting times ...