Python - NAWIT / Community

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 03:24 -0800, flebber wrote:
> On Dec 28, 10:16 pm, Adam Tauno Williams <awill... at whitemice.org>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 02:26 -0800, flebber wrote:
> > > Is pydev actively being developed and for who? SPE is a great idea but
> > > is Stan still developing? Pyscripter is good but not 64 capable. Plus
> > > none of these projects seem community centric.
> > Why not just check the repo and see the real answer for yourself?  It is
> > Open Source after all.
> > <https://github.com/aptana/Pydev/commits/master>

> Yes you can answer questions, but have you really? Your answer seems
> to be things are open source so who cares about community.
> > Many projects accept donations via PayPal.  Sourceforge supports this.
> Of course any fool can throw his/her money away thats no challenge why
> even use Paypal, I could have fun and by 10 bottles of vino and hand
> them out to recovering alcoholics.
> Don't answer things just for the sake of it, if you have nothing
> producive to say about furthering python and its community then say
> that.

I provided two concrete points, thank you:

(1) Is a project actively developed?  Look at the repo. That is the
answer to the question [this isn't necessarily obvious to those new to
Open Source].
(1.1.) "Is PyDev a potential unifying force amoung IDEs?"  Which is the
implied question - that is up to the OP and others who do/do-not
contribute to it.
(2) How can I donate cash? There is a fairly standard mechanism for
that.

Otherwise I think the OP's thoughts on "community" and how Open Source
works are somewhat flawed.  "Community" is a manifestation of people
*doing* things; it does *not* arise out of people being concerned about
things [since "doing" is quite apparently not a natural result of
"concern". Concern is like watching TV.  Doing is getting out of the
chair.]