agreed, is there pressure to release this source? Or are you asking for the release to gain a bit of help jean luc if its the latter then heck go for it. But if its just to please the like of fc etc then leave it until april as planned.
There is no pressure, I was just putting it up for discussion.
I don't feel I need help, yet, because many of my changes are still so fundamental that I am changing code all over the place and this type of work will be difficult to coordinate when there are many developers. CfB has to re-read the code and figure it out again every time I make some drastic refactoring like the last one. But eventually the code will stabilize and it will be possible to have several developers contributing at the same time. I also don't want to slow down the developers of clients and installers who want to peek into the source.
Should we create a poll and vote for it...
@J-L...thx for the 0.8 release, mate. Just skimmed the changelog but it looks impressive. Going to upgrade one of my nodes soonish....
Got a lot of stuff I want to say, but I'll stick to source code and FC/NXTclones... for the moment:
I say release the code whenever.
Having it fully open will help any devs who want to get on board with NXT, and give NXT brownie points for being so open and transparent.
Keeping it to ourselves for another month will allow NXT to be attacked on the grounds of "If they won't release the code, what are they hiding?" Though I think that the NXT=scam argument is pretty much dead now, trolls will still take any chance they can get to attack NXT, and we shouldn't let them have this one.
On the subject of trolls: dont let the FCs and nex wind u up. The FCs seem to be one lonely dude with a lot of hats, and no real talent apart from lying. We could tattoo the entire source code on his body and he still wouldn't be able to do much with it, except carry on as he's doing right now. Not serious competition, might be bad publicity by (loose) association.
Anyone else in the copy cat biz is welcome to the code, IMHO
Legitimate efforts will be helped, scammers will scam anyway with or without the code.
Mr Burns said it best......