On 8/16/05, David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Diwaker Gupta wrote: > > > > Talking about users, what do people think of doing a survey of Forrest > > users. > > What would be the purpose of this survey? > > > During the time that I've hung around the lists, I've noticed that often > > times people start in the user-list, then slowly migrate to the dev-list and > > some eventually end up as devs, which is just *great*. > > > > However, I do think that we need to put in some more efforts to publicize > > Forrest, make it more visible. Having an overlap between users and dev is > > not > > only good, but IMHO necessary, but we still need to expand our user base. > > We need to be a little careful about this. At the moment > we do not have sufficient developers to support a rush > of new users. That will take time away from doing development. > > I prefer to not publicize too widely at this stage, > rather let the base grow by itself. > > When we are ready to make a fanfare, then the ASF Public > Relations Committee will help us to do that properly.
+1, I personally think we should have a 1.0 release before concentrating on promoting it. --tim
