RE: [Rocketworkbench] project administrator

[Duncan M. <du...@fa...>]

Hi Geoff and Everyone,

Good point on the HW versus SW angle and it is worth discussing. First,
although SF is strictly speaking a SW development forum, there are lots =
of
combined hardware/software projects (autopilot, robotics, R/C, etc). The
ignitor will have (in the not too distant future!) a microcontroller =
with
code stored in flash and other avionic assemblies will undoubtedly have =
both
HW and SW so that fits reasonably well with SF. On the other hand there =
is
lots of rocket stuff that is purely mechanical but would still be open
source. Furthermore, even purely mechanical designs need to be =
documented
and revision controlled, and CSV is very handy for that. Sourceforge =
seems
kind of convenient for all types of designs in my mind, but the most
important point is that I would vastly prefer to keep all of Arockets
community efforts in one place whether it be pure software for rocket
development (simulation, propulsion, CFD, etc), HW/SW for avionic or
electromechanical, or pure hardware. I guess the alternative to SF is to
create a project area on Arocket that has CSV for version control.=20

What do you folks think? Geoff, from your email you seem to be of the =
mind
to keep Rocketworkbench SW only as far as I can see.

Happy New Year to all, and may you complete all of the projects you =
start
this year!

Duncan



> -----Original Message-----
> From: roc...@li...=20
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> Behalf Of Geoff O'Callaghan
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:47 PM
> To: roc...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Rocketworkbench] project administrator
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> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 15:12 -0500, Antoine Lefebvre wrote:
> > Hi rocket developpers and reserchers!
> > I have receive email from three persons that would like to=20
> be project=20
> > administrator of the rocketworkbench project.
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> Hi, =20
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> It looks like the xmas rush caught me as well.
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> Like Duncan, my goal is to keep rocketworkbench going as an=20
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> However, initially, I didn't see how the entire Biprop=20
> igniter project fits into the ideals of the rocketworkbench=20
> project as it is supposed to be for the development of rocket=20
> design software - some aspects of it
> does.   See http://rocketworkbench.sourceforge.net/goal.phtml
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> What I would like to see is the development of a design tools that
> integrate well to allow for rapid software based=20
> design/prototyping.  =20
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> Software based prototyping is worthless unless the results=20
> can be validated by actual testing - so rocketworkbench will=20
> need hardware testing....  Perhaps that's where the goals of=20
> projects like the Biprop igniter fits into things.  ie. =20
> Hardware developed to provide unit testing for the software=20
> :-)  Don't get me wrong - the Biprop igniter project is good=20
> stuff,  I'm just conscious of the goals of the SF website -=20
> An open source software development website - and of the
> stated goals of the rocketworkbench project.  =20
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> I like the idea of a community based rocketry site, but I=20
> don't think SF.net is the place. =20
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> I hope everyone had a great xmas/new year
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> Cheers
> Geoff
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