[GRASS-dev] GRASS-TNG

[Brad Douglas]

I was determined to not get involved, but I feel I've been forced to
comment.

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:31 +0100, Hruby Martin wrote:
> I am Radek's supervisor in his master thesis which should be a part of 
> this mentioned project. The project itself seems to be too huge to become 
> an one-man-show. For this reason, we have started asking our friends and 
> collegues in our country, like Martin Landa and Jachym Cepicky for their 
> help and comments.

>From what I've gathered, it's much larger than a three-man-show, too.

> Opening idea is that GRASS is too old fashioned to keep it in development 
> in current programming style. Some people will agree, some people not. We 
> just want to remake the GIS kernel and to rewrite current modules to the 
> new fashion. The whole philosophy of GRASS should remain the same.

Define "old fashioned".  Sounds more like opinion than fact.

> So, this is a fork to main stream development. Or, better say, this is 
> more a research. If someone wants to join, then is welcome ;-) This 
> project may be a very nice experiment.

Is it really a fork() or is it being done from scratch?  From what I've
read, it seems that the latter is the case except the layout will be
borrowed.

Let me pose a hypothetical:
Suppose someone acquired your DNA, created a child and called it
Upgraded Hruby Martin II.  How would you react?

That is essentially what this is.  It seems clear to me that there no
intention or path to contribute back to GRASS.  It's a one way street
and that bothers me.

I encourage new developments.  All I ask is please don't call it
something it isn't.


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