On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Sebastian Pölsterl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> natan yellin schrieb: > >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Sebastian Pölsterl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> Diego Escalante Urrelo schrieb: >>> >>> Hey, >>>> >>>> On 6/28/08, Thomas H.P. Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> >>>>> But this all getting a bit off topic I guess :) I just wanted to point >>>>> out two things that might motivate developers (ego boosts and personal >>>>> profit) and see if there are ways we can help those along. The ego >>>>> boosting is already there. There can be enough hacker energy for weeks >>>>> in a single "Awesome!" One way we could do more of this could be a >>>>> periodical vote for the CoolestHacker or whatever. >>>>> >>>>> What if we hack a twitter like thing for GNOME where we can drop a >>>> line about what are we doing now or we did this week in GNOME, or >>>> maybe just a random thought. At the end of the week or biweekly >>>> someone grabs the best lines and sends a GNOME Almost Weekly News. >>>> It would work as an informal way of keeping track of what we are doing >>>> (in human readable format) and a way to comment on what other cool >>>> guys are doing. Pretty much like twitter: >>>> >>>> I like the idea. That would be an easy way to keep track of what's >>> happening in GNOME at a central place. The main problem I see is to >>> convince >>> developers that they actually post their status updates. >>> >> >> Wouldn't that defeat the purpose. If developers don't want to post, >> forcing >> them to do so isn't going to attract more contributors. >> >> I don't want to force developers to post at all. But there should be a > number of developers that post regularly. Maybe I'm wrong and most > developers love to post their status updates their. I don't know. > I think you're right, but my only point was that if this turns into something that you need to convince developers to do, then we shouldn't be doing it. > > > Besides, isn't this the point of project/people trackers like CIA and >> Ohloh? >> >> Those sites just track stats. The doesn't tell you what the developer's > plans are. Sure you could read the commit messages, but it's cumbersome to > read all new commit messages of the projects you're interested in. > I think the best solution would be an improved pgo that could track this sort of thing. Perhaps it could do so by integrating with twitter like you suggested. > > -- > Greetings, > Sebastian Pölsterl > Natan
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