Some responses, clearification and spanning ideas below.
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From: "Richard Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] KeyEvents working in NS6
> A few ideas that distilled from your response:
> * Yes, it's nice to see Henrik and Cameron (and Robert of course) putting
> some effort into the
> website.
> If anyone has time, would it be possible to make a kind of new-comer
> introduction page, with all the relevant info grouped into a short faq.
> there could be explained how to submit patches/bugs etc.
> All this info is available in the normal faq/source-forge faq etc, but it's
> amid so many other things it's not clear what is in use and what not.
heh, fact is I was going for it in a post to the mailinglists on this, but lost it
when my computer hanged. I had gotten really far, but lost all of it and kinda thought
it was faith that didn't want me to send it (ie i got really pissed at myself and
didn't take up on it). I'll give it another shot now.
> * would it be hard to link to patches and buglists directly from the new
> homepage?
its easy to link to the patches and bug pages at sourceforge, but the question is if
anybody would still use it? OR do you mean we should link to each induvidual patch and
bug? That may be easy, but its very time consuming to keep it up to date since its
everchanging. The weblinks section though allows for more permanent linking which
anybody can submit and temporary things could be posted as news also by anybody. But
the dev team prefers it if all submitters could post patches and bugs through the
sourceforge site, so that's where posters should submit custom made patches and
bugreports if they want to make them most avaialable for implementation into the
official build.
> * Do the patch posts also post to the list automatically?
Yes. Robert has seen to it to work that way.
> * Could we keep a list of who volunteered for what (i.e. Henrik and Cameron
> for the
> website, Nuno for testing etc) and their email-addresses so we know who is
> coordinating what.
I'm not sure this is a a very great idea. Putting a list of names (and emails) with
assignments tend to give people the idea they can expect those listed to do "their
work" at all times and that's not what an open source project is all about. Also I'm
not interested to expose my email for spams by having it in clear text on a listing.
(trust me when I say that my being a volunteer columnist at another site have given me
the most akward emails and spams at times)
BUT I could see us having some kind of taskrelated forum or even emailbox that the
voolunteers of a certain task could be handeling together. Now I don't think another
emaillist is the soloution. I think though that I could get into the "submission
guidelines" enogh info to make the need for something like that obsoloute. There are
enough resources with the sourceforge, the new site and the mailinglists to be used
for most things if people knew which is the more correct forum for each. I think I may
have to describe why a certain forum is better for a certain kind of submission,
because people tend to ignore it if it's not comfortable by them (no one meant in
specific - just a tendancy).
Oops, gotta run off to my real work ;)
Henrik Våglin [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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