[PD] libpd separating gui from core

[Dan Wilcox]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Rafael Vega <email.rafa at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's been fascinating for me to see what has happened with OpenFrameworks
>> and their "Do it with others" philosophy. It would be great if the Pd
>> community would migrate into something similar.
>>
>
What's interesting to me is that we had a similar issue in OpenFrameworks a
couple of years ago. As the community grew, more and more people wanted to
contribute but there was a lack of focus and the priorities of the project
were hidden by the core devs. We've had a couple of developer
conferences/meetups where decisions were made on how to best handle the
needs of the core people who started the project while opening up overall
development to capitalize on the experience of others outside of the core
group.

I must admit there were times where I wanted to fork OF or split off
development in some other way, but instead I decided to knuckle down and
see if we could work things out. I think it's worth a try in Pd. Even if it
takes a bunch of work up front, it will be worth it in the long run.

It's been an involved social process but, overall, we are moving ahead
quite well. There is a public roadmap, community action leaders (audio, 3d,
graphics, linux, etc), a robust forum, etc. GitHub has been amazing helpful
in this area is probably one of the main tools that makes this
collaboration possible.

There have been missteps and there are still issues to resolve, but we're
getting there. For instance, there will be a Documentation sprint at CMU in
a few weeks.

-- 
Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com
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