[Bf-docboard] Blender still a Project?

[Jason van Gumster]

Where are you reading that Blender is a project? Can you provide a link?

That said, here's the way I look at it. Blender itself is a product. *However*
Blender's development is indeed a project... a continual, on-going project. The
same can be said for Blender's documentation.

So when someone talks about the Blender project, I read that as them discussing
Blender development... not the software.

  -Jason

Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford at gmail.com> wrote:

> But what software is finished until it is painted with the EOL banner?
> 
> Even Microsoft windows even isn't finished as more and more new features
> are released year after year. But they don't call it a project.
> 
> Linux is open source and worked on by a strong community similar to blender
> but they don't call it project. It might have been a project in the first 2
> or 3 years but after ten years if one still calls it a project then it
> appears it isnt functioning as stable enough and cant be counted on for
> very professional work, so to speak.
> 
> Who will wanna use a software widely known still as a project? The
> expression project carries with it a kind of mentality of instability, non
> reliable piece of software that the developers are working on to make it
> useful. Meanwhile blender is already useful and used to create at least 3
> international standard short animation movies. So what's left?
> 
> So why a project still for blender? Blender is passed 10 years of
> development and its still a project?
> 
> If sintel and tears of steel were projects and they were created by a
> project software, how ridiculous that might sound.
> 
> I'm glad Ton is around to help explain
> 
> Thanks
> On May 7, 2013 5:50 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Nkansah Rexford
> > <nkansahrexford at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As per the definition of the word project it reads:
> > >
> > > "An individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned and
> > > designed to achieve a particular aim"
> > >
> > > Is Blender software not past the project stages? Blender is stable,
> > > efficient and effective, simple to use, with details and very
> > functioning,
> > > and for me, better than many so-called industry standards suites out
> > there.
> > >
> > > However, Blender is still called a project, and I wonder why the word,
> > > project
> > >
> > > I know its worked on by many around the globe, but that's same for even
> > > proprietary suites, though they make money out of it.
> > >
> > > Any reasons?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > --
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> >
> > Maybe it is called that because it is not finished yet?
> >
> > --
> > Douglas E Knapp