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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Is your friend planning to maintain this project after the 12 weeks are up?
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as time permits, for a few years at least
as a side note, the 12 weeks came from approximating 500 hours... not from an arbitrary time commitment or artificial deadline.
If the code is well formed and proves useful, and the project attracts enough attention, I'm sure it will get maintained, even if it is written in fortran, and the math statements use a special reverse polish notation mod.
I feel like a strange thing happens here... Like if I ask about what people want in a new car, i get 2 pages on the speed gauge being metric vs empirical, and a few posts on why the engine block should be made out of a specific steal.. not to mention that the passenger door should definitely be 42.5kg.
feel free to:
- state what you assume it would come with, just to be on the safe side (4 wheels, seats etc...)
- state things you want it to have (power steering, power windows, gps, cd changer)
- state things you want to do with it (carry a giant stroller, move furniture, go camping, carry up to 6 people)
Please avoid:
- imposing new design constraints (it must be made out of 100% recycled soy plastic)
- try to hijack design (and it should be 18.5m long, and use a turbine engine)
- solve for problems outside of the domain of the tool (and world hunger is bad)
Sorry to take the car analogy so far, but I feel like you all are hording the good ideas while giving me all this other stuff. I love the ideas here... and I know you all have the answers I'm looking for... But some of you don't make this easy on me... as I tell my girls though, most of the things in the world that are helpful or useful are not comfortable or easy... they don't understand yet.. but they are only 6 months old, so they have time.