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[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:09:41PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:26:51PM +0100, "Fernández-Victorio Arévalo, Gonzalo" wrote:
> > 
> > Markus Neteler wrote: 
> > 
> > > Personally I don't think that "developers" vs. "coders" is 
> > > appropriate for
> > > the GRASS project. We have no paid people who get instructions what
> > > code to write. So "coders" do not exist (at least for me), we have
> > > GRASS developers who are also coding. I think that every developers
> > > has a vision of the future of GRASS, a coder maybe not (as he/she 
> > > receives the order to write certain code without developing own
> > > visions). Having such coders would be useful, but it seems that
> > > we have to wait more time...

That definition might be a bit too tight.
I believe "coders" in respect of GRASS also 
indicates that they actually contribute code to GRASS itself.
"Developers" is geared towards the ability, too.

> > I thought the interview was a good election, but now I've started to doubt.

I also think an interview just with any person important to GRASS
is interesting.

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