[idea] developing racing-sims as a community

[thelusiv]

I can't do anything before January, I have lots of exams and I'm even struggling to go on the web. I don't even have time to answer the other questions :lol:

I know the feeling, I just finished exams for this semester. I'm so happy to have free time again...

no, seriously, first of all I want opinions about that, I made that post expecting people to put whatever they had in mind, and for now no one seems to care (or dare answering, who knows), so...

Well, I've been working for some time now to make VDrift development more agile and this web site is part of that effort. Maybe we should start there...what could be better about the web site? What could we add? What should be cleaned up/removed?

Before we had a bug tracker but it didn't really get used, and it became pointless. I don't think we need one still. Maybe when our number of active developers doubles and we find ourselves unable to track issues effectively. So far the forum is doing just fine.

As for open source racing in general, setting up a community site is certainly possible - not much harder than setting up this site was. However in order to get other projects to help out we'll need to get them interested, recruit them so to speak. Without strong goals and good leadership the whole thing would fall apart and people will just go back to incrementally working on their personal projects at their own pace, as they do now.