12 Dec
2013
12 Dec
'13
2:01 a.m.
On 12/11/2013 5:35 PM, Chris Lahey wrote:
You're absolutely right that something like that
could go up fairly
quickly. I'm just afraid that it would take away from the possibility
of something much more useful, though harder to obtain. I don't think
it's forking the discussion to discuss whether this is a good idea.
Fair
enough.
I've witnessed a number of volunteer web things things that never got
off the ground at all because the requirements snowballed to the point
where it would be really hard to get started. I've now come around to
the position that sometimes, given limited time and resources, and when
one isn't working on life-critical projects, it's worth figuring out
what the minimum effort to do something useful would be, with the idea
that once something is useful it will be easier to find more resources,
and if you get bogged down you've at least got something useful.
So that's my bias in this discussion.
-- Alan