[postgis-users] FOSS GIS clients - thanks for all the replies, on and offline

[Tim Bowden]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 22:16 -0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I think the seminal work on the open development process is 'The
> Cathedral and the Bazaar' by Eric Raymond.

+1.  Whilst getting a little dated, It is most certainly the most well
known work in this regard.  ESR has also written an interesting essay on
how to ask questions (though I think it's aimed at asking in a very dev
centric environment rather than a user centric environment).  In a way
it is in itself an interesting insight into hacker culture.  In it he
links to http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html which is
a very useful guide to reporting bugs or issues with software.

Regards,
Tim Bowden

> 
> I would second that the discussion held here represents extreme points
> of view perhaps to make for a more lucid debate. In reality we as
> developers do greatly care about our users, get upset when people
> criticise our work, and generally have human reactions to these
> things. In most case the only reward and pleasure we get from our hard
> work is seeing our work 'out in the wild', being used and enjoyed by
> people.
> 
> Regarding QGIS reading your large dataset, I would suggest to ensure
> you have spatial index (using option in vector layer properties
> dialog) built for the dataset and use scale dependent rendering.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 2008/1/5, Robert Coup <robert.coup at onetrackmind.co.nz>:
> > On 06/01/2008, dnrg <dananrg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > If anyone can recommend a good book on the sociology
> > > of open source communities, I'm all eyes.
> >
> > "Producing Open Source Software"[1] has some interesting stuff in it, and so
> > does "Understanding Open Source Software Developement"[2].
> >
> > [1] http://producingoss.com/
> > [2]
> > http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=s5EwJk0tUJAC&ie=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Rob :)
> >
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