| OT a little late but who cares... [message #97015] |
Tue, 18 March 2008 02:00 |
rick
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evelopers than
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>numbers might dictate.
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>Here's the immediate obstacle I want to ask the community about.
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>Even the most interested developers can't do much for us if they don't have
>a PARIS rig - and in 2008 PARIS rigs aren't easy to run out and buy. Given
>our small size as a market, if we as a community are asking a developer
to
>do things for us, then telling them "go out and source and purchase a PARIS
>rig so you can help us out" isn't gonna fly. Neither is promising a
>developer you'll get them access to a rig to test on without being sure
you
>can deliver. If the community wants developers to work on PARIS, and those
>developers have to have a PARIS rig available in order to help us - then
>IMHO it's *in the community's best interest to provide one to them*.
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>So this is a "feeler" post. IMHO the community needs a pre-assembled,
>"turnkey" (ie pre-installed on a computer) PARIS development rig, ready
to
>be shipped to developers that could do it the most good (if you've guessed
>that I have destinations in mind to offer this to already - well, you're
a
>good guesser :D).
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>Ideally this rig would be a multi-card, multi-MEC system containing at least
>one of every existing PARIS component we can get our hands on so PARIS can
>be thoroughly tested in larger configurations. No more of this "sorry, we
>didn't have a full system to test" thing. But as a start we'll settle for
>whatever we can lay our hands on.
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>In addition we'd need a PARIS commun
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