Richard wrote:IAHM-COL wrote:Basically, the cores are working to delete aircrafts no-one likes
That's note quite true. There is a discussion going on at the moment to decide how best to handle aircraft that have been superseded by a better model - or when there is a very poor model that should not be distributed.
As an example I deleted the old f15c (after discussions) from FGAddon when I added mine. Did I do wrong?
Did you do wrong?!
Nothing farther from the true. You F15 model is the most advanced fighter developed from FG. YOU DO GREAT STUFF!!
Maybe a fair competition to Vitos MiG model. but yours stand the advantage of being a truly free model, while Vitos is so restrictive that one can assume it does not exist.
Now, about removing an aircraft, there are several things.
1. If you take a model and develop it further, as you did, this seems to be somehow like just improving on top of the older content.
2. Yet, since you created a completely independent new aircraft, the old f15c really did not need to be removed.
3. Yes, I see how can you argue that you guys back in FGADDon are trying to improve the overall quality of your collection and thus want to cull the low end. But I find you will always find gray areas.
It is better to keep deprecated versions around? I don't think this has a real definite answer, and ultimately depends on what you guys may want to achieve over at FGADDon
But lets' take the case of Josh/John (itouchpods/tikibar) MD-11.
That plane is completely independent of the older MD11. (not slash)
Is it really worth removing hours of works and effort and contributions in the MD11, just because a newer-cooler-kid showed up in the block?
How about people that can't run the MD-11 for computer limitations or FG version being run? (the same question is very valid in your F15, when the older that you remove would run in more computers than your enriched version)
Ultimately I have zero voice on what's done on FGAddon; I would say no to remove models on basis of quality. This would be my position if FGADDon is considered the "official" development repository. Development here meaning other person could push any deprecated model along in a different direction than the cute new kid-on-the-block
The attic is a great risk of start loosing effectively those aircrafts. Certainly it will stop listing for the great majority of users. FGMEMBERS will still keep them available. I say again: the cupper of one is the gold of other.
And welcome to the Free Flight Free Speech forum, RichardYou have a great admirer on the quality of your work in me. (and surely many others here, too)