Idea that may aid the developers

[Fletcher]

Crowd Programming in my mind is something that could be considered in the future of the mod's development, though maybe not until post 4.86 release. But here is the idea anyhow.

The developers would share the workload with not just the current staff, but by uploading the work that can be done by coders/programmers or anyone willing to help in any way with the right knowledge. I've taken a look at some Freelancer code and it does... scare my at first since programming isn't my forte, but if I sat down and crunched it I could churn something out.

This could mean that a number of us on here have the capability of aiding the developers by crunching some numbers or error checking, or just debugging new code to try and find errors. The more testing the better in ANY kind of programming.

So, would it be a good idea for the developers to release some files they need help on, or just tasks for programming that needs doing for the community to help with? There must be a few more coders in here?

While sharing the workload WILL have its problems, for instance the developers will need to error check and verify quite possibly many more things than their own current work.

It is a tricky see-saw to balance, that's for sure.

So, would sharing the work load with the community in the future be an option? If done right, I'm sure taking some of the work load of others, especially those 'crunching' ones involving finding one error in a large text file. THOSE are a git... Visual.NET taught me that...

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