Quote from: JohnnyBTCSeed on March 25, 2014, 07:34:25 PM

The main problem though for all the bickering is that the msc devs no longer include the public in their musings. We little people are left with our own speculations in place of being able to follow the entertainment that has been the development of mastercoin. With counterparty at least the public feels like it can be a part of it. MSC just hands us a piece of bread (updates) every few days, letting us know that it will be THEY who control the conversation. Thats hardly entertaining at all in my opinion and it forces me to just keep checking back every few weeks as opposed to reading up everyday. (This might account for the volume)

That and dev speed is a little lacking. (Cause the things I originally invested in msc for still won't be around for many many months) It's like waiting for that last hobbit movie.

I hated the Hobbit movies

Anyway, this may help? https://groups.google.com/a/mastercoin.org/forum/#!forum/dev
Also, ask dominik@mastercoin.org to add you to the dev mailing list if you'd like. There are some xposts from the mailing list to the forum(s), but most serious discussion does take place in a mailing list like Bitcoin does.

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Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War

quotes from some emails:
Me: moreso from their actual fruits of labor, is there anything we can learn from their [Counterparty's] development process that we can adopt? Craig? How will our focus change from before the release of our attempt of a DEx? JR mentioned that our development process will be a lot more streamlined because well only focus on one implementation, but what is the actual battle plan?

Ron: We have already cut down on development to any implementation other than Masterchest desktop wallet and Omni web wallet, starting from April 1st.

Me: How might this bode for the extraneous implementations' devs?

Ron: The migration process has been interesting. One developer (of the lesser Windows wallet) just silently left for the time being (even though he said he'll start contributing to the other Windows wallet).

The other developer of the web wallet - we actually had a very productive talk with him today, and are looking forward to defining our cooperation in the future. It's still not all rosy, but I think we broke down a long-standing barrier today.

Craig: I agree with JRs assessment that things will be going smoother post launch. We were previously moving all of the pieces around at once (spec, outgoing communication, implementation development x 4, etc). We now (after April 15th), will be able to put each of these pieces into cycles that will feed one another, instead of juggling concurrent priorities.

We dont have that luxury between now and April 15th (in order to get Smart Property issuance launched by the deadline), so expect to see a scramble for the next three weeks.

The good news is: we will be focusing on a single reference implementation (thanks, Ron!) and building integration tools for third parties to work off of a common base. We have not had that up until now.

Me: Very happy to hear, thank you friends