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The "we'll release this to the public when it's finished" mentality is what's causing this project to fail. Urbit sounds really cool, but it needs people to ac
by Niksko 11y ago
The "we'll release this to the public when it's finished" mentality is what's causing this project to fail.
Urbit sounds really cool, but it needs people to actually get used to it, understand it, and then parse it and explain it for us mortals.
- chc4 11y agoIt's certainly not ready now, but they released a whitepaper and it's open to the public, both in terms of source and joining the network. Anyone is free to get used to it and use it, as evident as this tutorial by a member of the community.
- pcmonk 11y agoI honestly think you're absolutely right. Some people have pushed through our "unreleased" status and have learned quite a bit anyway. The guy who wrote these tutorials is not one of urbit's primary devs, but he still managed to get a pretty decent grasp on the system, and he even wrote some great doc. We're generally quite responsive on the urbit-dev mailing list, and we're making a concerted effort to be more helpful everywhere. Urbit is one of those projects that can't succeed without a community. The pace of github pull requests from outside contributors is increasing, and more and more docs are coming out, both from the core dev team and outside contributors.