Recently I have started playing with a computer vision library. But it is one of those pieces of software that just moves sooo slow because the developers are hard to get ahold of.
In particular I have a terribly trivial patch that makes the library compile under Linux 2.6 and no one has even commented on it on the mailing list or bug tracker. Furthermore the documentation currently has examples that do not compile because of missing libraries and almost twice a day someone is asking how to fix it on the mailing lists.
To make things worse the mailing list is hosted on a closed Yahoo! Groups account and requires logging in to view. Gah!
In any case I am doing my part and I am going to update the documentation and post it on my wiki as soon as possible. If I can’t get the developers attention I see a fork in the future…
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Totally agree with you, most developers just don’t want to put enough effort into it.
wiki.opencv.org seems like a good start, but there’s nothing much there so far.
I on my part have change the docs to be more or less usable for me, with an index of functions. You can see it on http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oleykin/OpenCVHelp/index.html