[vorbis] Why is Vorbis development slow?

[Graham Mitchell]

> I have been following this thread, and I find it amazing that Xiph is not
> willing to put more effort into documentation.

Okay, say you're the brains behind a software project.  Only you have the 
knowledge to move things forward, and there probably aren't just dozens and 
dozens of people who are even *capable* of doing the work you're doing, even 
if they *did* know what to do.  This ain't bubble sort.

Your sole source of income is what people will donate to your non-profit.  
You don't have a big nest egg, so you can't be unemployed for long.

You've already created fairly easy-to-read source code.  And detailed 
technical documentation.  And user-level documentation.

What would you work on?  Highly detailed documentation so a few more 
developers could maybe join up?  Though there's no guarantee they'll do so?  
And given that the sort of people who could actually handle the level of 
difficult coding required probably don't *need* any more documentation? And 
given that no one is willing to pay you to write them?

Would you work on additional tuning even though what you have already beats 
the pants off the most popular alternative/market leader?

Or would you spend your time working for hire making a way for companies to 
sell hardware (a.k.a. make money) using your codec?  And in so doing, stay 
solvent and thus allow development to continue at all?

Again, I know what I would have chosen.


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Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School
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