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Originally Posted by dez250
This i personally think would not help the problem, yet make it worse. I am a scorekeeper this year at 2 regionals and am looking forward to it. Normally it seems the software will have bugs when different states occur. I dont think with all the testing, all the states could be thought of and used throughout testing. Sometimes you just have to let bugs be worked out as they happen and be fixed on the fly. Also i think that if you had a ton of people trying to help out the scorekeeper(s) at an event, it would be hell and make a huge time delay in the event. IMHO i would not like to see the program be released to the general public, though if you contact first via the volunteer system and explain your situation, it would be appriciated by many though.
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Perhaps I should explain which programs I am referring to exactly. The programs used to: rank teams, randomly create qualifying round pairings, and particularly the program used during alliance picking which establish eligibility.
I wouldn't expect score keepers at regionals to be programmers. Or for it to even be possible for them to change the program. There really shouldn't be a need for it. I assume they are regular folks who are looking at a premade Windows program.
I think FIRST should put the program on Sourceforge now and let the bugs get picked out in the next couple weeks. The collaboration happens in an online forum style, teams shouldn't neet to approach scorers at the regionals. Make participants understand they are simply testing the functionality and not the "look". I am certain that the knowledge in the FIRST community can weed out 99.9% of problems.
For a good Sourceforge example check out
GAIM . An open source instant messanger developed using the tools at Sourceforge.