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https://www.blender.org/foundation/history/ https://www.blender.org/foundation/history/ Ton Roosendaal has been the utter backbone of this project since before

• SXX 9y ago
  Not that you have to be grumpy, but It's require certain personality to work on single project for years while avoiding complete burnout. I think it's true not just for open source. Also in the beginning it's extremely important to have someone to keep project together and that is also require some dedication. Though most of projects become more self sustainable once community grow big enough.
• UncleEntity 9y ago
  I contributed to blender for a few years and rarely interacted with Ton, never found him to be grumpy either.
• qmoto0 9y ago
  I've been impressed by this as well (not just in the blender project). I think having a good leader who can maintain a clear architecture for the project has a huge impact on the consistency of the result. It can be expressed as something like coding style or source tree layout, but also affect which features make it in, and how they affect a user's workflow. I don't know how they manage it, exactly, but it contrasts quite a bit with other projects I've seen that feel more haphazard, get-any-feature-in-and-we'll-polish-it-up-later. With blender, things feel polished long before we see them in the release.