Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> 
> Then you fundamentally misunderstood the point we always made: We will not
> discuss the design in public, and we do not endorse design discussions in
> public either.  Every discussion about design ideas is just ignored,
> regardless of what is being discussed.

Speaking only for myself:

this is a bit exaggerated (or at least could be easily misunderstood). 
Development of POV-Ray does (and i hope will always do) include 
discussion in the POV Community.  This of course does not mean that 
everything is first discussed in the public newsgroups.

What does this mean for discussing ideas: I would no way generally 
discourage starting discussion of individual ideas for future POV-Ray 
development including design issues.  But you should always remember 
that whatever result such a discussion might have this will not 
necessarily have an effect on what's actually developed.  So it would 
probably be a better idea to keep such a discussion focussed more on 
requirements than on actual design.  Note i am not talking about 
concrete raytracing features here, i mean general requirements you 
consider important for the planning of a new POV-Ray.  Discussing 
concrete features now would be like starting to build a house by 
building the roof.

Christoph

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