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# Project status and open source
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This repo is public because
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1. It has always been our intention to make this open-source.
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2. We figured it's best to err on the side of doing this early instead of late.
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3. It may prove useful to those outside our company.
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This is not a production design. It was designed for and served a specific
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purpose in support of our actual production designs. It is not under active
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development, and comes with no warranty.
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And so, we thought it was important to explain where we're currently at, and
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manage your expectations.
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- We are a small company.
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- Our current goal is to get our first generation products finished and in
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customers' hands.
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- We've created this design in support of our end-goal, not as its own thing.
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We're all working on the products, and tool development is a side effect.
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- For expediency, we've made "get-it-done" choices with libraries and parts.
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We may split or clean this up later, but, for now, we're primarily focused on
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getting _our_ product ready, because, again, we need to finish our computers.
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- These points together mean that we may not have enough bandwidth to review and
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integrate outside PRs right now.
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You're welcome to send PRs! If we have time, or if the PRs are very small or fix
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bugs, we may even integrate them in the near future. But be aware that we might
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not get to it for a while, by which time it might no longer be relevant.
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We've all dealt with those open source projects that feel open in name only, and
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have big patches and history-free source drops appearing from behind the walls
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of some large organization. We don't like that, and we're not going to do that.
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But please bear with us while we're scaling up.
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If you want to ask about whether a PR is consistent with our short-term plan
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_before_ you put in the work -- and you should! -- hit us up in an issue.
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Thanks! |