Reply To: Questions regarding DPF.

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The point is not for us to supply a product. This is the “showing the need” phase.

Open Source projects usually don’t work that way. I participated in a few Open-Source projects, this is what I saw: the usual approach is that there is a person (or sometimes more) who is dedicated to development (Like for example “Linus Torwalds” for linux) and he is working on his idea more or less full time (Lead Developer). Usually the lead developer releases something working (v0.1 or v1.0). Other people take interest, and then other volunteer developers appear on-and-off, sometimes adding a small change here or there. For a long time of developing a project, volunteer developers might get interested enough to dedicate a considerable time on this project and sometimes even match or even become a lead developers themselves, but this event is quite rare. So finding people who become dedicated to an idea enough to become Lead developers is extremely hard. A lot of sand has to be sifted to find a grain of gold. If there are no Lead Developpers, then the project can wither and die, how it happened with one of the project I followed (“Vega Strike”).
Something to visualize the process:
http://vimeo.com/1093745

EDIT, changed the link as Arch Linux is build by merging non-original code so and Python is original work