well yes.
In fact.
But that's a little bit of a selfish way of seeing it. It reminds me of some developers that avoid sending a merge request to lets say an FGMEMBERS aircraft with the hope that they "Control" some of its improvements' distribution.
Sending a merge request is kind and open and invites collaborative environments. I support that.
As a matter of fact,
I had offered many times to the core developers for them to implement FGDATA with submodules
AND TERRAGIT in their wealth of content. (So many times indeed that I --and SHM-- suffered banning from their infrascture, including forums
and devel.list)
I had failed to succeed on every single time of these invitations, because for them it is all a matter of
control. Neither FGMEMBERS nor FGMEMBERS-TerraGIT offer platforms designed with control in mind.
More importantly, they have mentioned they are unsure on how to implement and merge this content in the big picture of FG. I, instead, have a clear idea of how that is done,. It would take me matter of hours to do so. The only need I have is that they give me push access to some of their infrastructure, and then sit back and enjoy it.
The answer has been: Thanks, but not, everytime
See ALL of this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=520So, that's that. It is not about: Come and get it, even if you are unsure. It's been about their showing power over decisions and how they affect everyone. They've gone as far as attempting to deprecate Functionality with the hope to render some work useless to legacy.
Sometimes I think those core developers, and Thorsten as their spokesman are sick people