In reading another post where HL mentioned a few items that are sorely needed in Dolphin as part of the basic package, and with numerous replies about code that would do what needs to be done, I think it would be a good idea to have an area where a lot of great coders here could freely donate some of their code snippets for inclusion in future releases. Of course it would be up to Boonex to decide whether they would use them and how, but if something is freely available to help move Dolphin along in the direction we all want to see it go, and the authors of code snippets are willing to freely contribute them in the hopes of it being useful, it would really move the community forward.
This would do two things: Make Dolphin a real Community Supported program while relieving some of the headaches of coding from the developers so they could spend more time on tweaking and bug-hunting, and generate some extra goodwill from the community.
I'm not even certain if this isn't already going on now, but having an area where members of the community could submit their code for inclusion might generate some additional interest for others who might have been on the fence about submitting an idea or some code they've successfully implemented in their own projects.
Wouldn't it be kinda nice to know that even a small part of some code you submitted helped make Dolphin a better product?
But i don't think it will be included.
It'd be nice if someone from the dev department were a bit more active in responding to issues that users bring up. I understand the "we're busy coding" point, but that business with coding could be a lot more fast and smooth if they spent a bit more time interacting with users who try to modify and fix the software.
I'm not a big fan of the idea of spending my time tapping see more
As a question...
Is there a pathway to becoming a developer for Dolphin? on many other open source platforms softies can lodge to become part of the team.
If you prove that you write can quality code you can be provided with read/write access to SVN. It can be achieved by writing quality mods and providing quality code fixes/addons in the forum.