On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 05:40 -0700, Garcia wrote:
> i have watching for dblinq project for a year and i dont understand
> some things:
> 
> 1) where is main information page about project?
> there are:

Uh, er, um....

I didn't realize there were quite that many.

> http://dblinq.codeplex.com

Refers people to the code.google.com url.  I wasn't really aware that
this existed, nor do I know wtf a 0.20 release is (the download is
binary, not source).

I wouldn't use it.

That said, codeplex is a place where developers will go to look for
source, so having a "pointer" there referring to code.google.com is a
good thing; I'm just not keen on there being a Download link to an
unknown version.  (Nor, for that matter, do I know who created this page
and can update its contents.)

> http://code2code.net/DB_Linq/

I wasn't aware that this URL existed either.  It looks ancient.
Consider it obsolete.  (I have no idea who maintains the page, nor how
to update/remove it.)

Alas, this is the top hit for "dblinq" through bing.com, and the "home
page" for linq.to/db.

> http://linq.to/db

I did know about this one.  I'd consider this the "official" home
page...except I can't figure out how to actually edit the page.  It has
some useful contents not duplicated elsewhere (e.g.
http://linq.to/db/Tests), and has a nice URL, but my inability to edit
it is a bit of a turnoff.

> http://code.google.com/p/dblinq2007/

I also knew about this one, and is what I consider to be the only source
for the DbLinq source code.

Of course, you forgot a URL as well:

        http://groups.google.com/group/dblinq

> maybe only one of them should be online? http://code.google.com/p/dblinq2007/

Given the present architecture, we need to have at least two online:

        http://code.google.com/p/dblinq2007/
        http://groups.google.com/group/dblinq

We can debate http://linq.to/db.  It's the 4th link returned from
Google, so I'm not entirely keen on losing this "juice."

Though in an ideal world, we would have only one url: dblinq.org (which
would host source+mailing list+issue tracker+...).

Alas, I'm not interested in the maintenance overhead that would be
required in running a separate site, so the current two site solution
will remain status quo for now...

We could consider migrating the http://linq.to/db stuff into the dblinq
google group...

> 2) there are no new releases and news
> in 2007-2008 there were releases, but the last post was a year ago..

Yeah, we've been bad about that.

> 3) 0.20 release
> in google group the last release is 0.18, but on codeplex the last is
> 0.20. Which is more reliable? or svn? )

0.18 is ancient.  I don't know what 0.20 is (and there's no source).

At present, svn is what should be used.  (Does that suck?  Yes.  Am I
working on a 0.19 release?  You betcha!)

> I think there should be more news and releases because some people can
> think "oooh, another dead project, i'm going away". But there is
> activity, in SVN and forum. Finally maybe project should be renamed to
> simply "dblinq"? :)

"dblinq" is an improvement over "DbLinq"?  I'm not quite sure what
you're referring to...

> http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.6
> 
> hope see you in mono soon ;)

It's in mono trunk now.  Why wait? :-)

(Though Mono 2.6 will be branching in a week, so you wouldn't be waiting
for long, if you were waiting for 2.6...)

 - Jon



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