Dan, I think this is a great idea.
Sorry for going dark this week. We've been having a less than optimal release with one of the projects I'm working on. I'll re-engage next week. Thank you very much for adding value and thinking about how to help ESME succeed. David On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the main things I've seen work successfully in many project to get > the > community moving as well as attract new developers/users is to get an > actual > release out. There are a lot of people that won't go through the effort > of > checking out from svn, building, etc.... They want to see an actual > release > to play with. > > Thus, my suggestion, would be to set a date for a release (even a > "milestone" > release, like a "0.1" version) and see what can be done before then. For > example, maybe target June 30th, see what can be put in before then, and > kind > of run with it. Even if it ends up being "not much different" than what is > in > SVN right now, it's at least a step forward. > > Thoughts? > > Are there other ideas that folks have to help get things moving again? > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected] > http://www.dankulp.com/blog > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp
