On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 14:24 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Quality often seems to come with quantity.
Eh? > In anarchist/co-operative groups it's often been the most disruptive > people that got turned around by the nature of the group/organisation > and become a driving force, even Chairperson or Company Secretary. What are you talking about? This is a FLOSS project. > However to find those "gems" the group accepts tons of people and > although most of those turn out to help in minor ways with easy things > it's difficult to always see exactly what they are doing. No, with FLOSS the process of winnowing the developers happens naturally, with the emphasis being on people who winnow themselves out. > 1. Easier to download and install. > People here obviously find it easy to compile but What? You are engaging in blatant conflations. Users are not developers, users will never compile anything. > most people out there haven't got a clue and find it too scary as a > prospect. Much easier to download and install a competitor such as > Thunderbird or Claws and miss out on all the amazing things Evo can do > that those others can't. I install a LINUX distribution, then I install Evolution from there. THAT IS HOW LINUX SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION WORKS, VIA THE ***DISTRIBUTION*** - HENCE THE NAME "DISTRIBUTION"! > 2. Some sort of forum There is one, you are in it! > 3. A donations button And donate to whom? How many FLOSS projects have you actively participated in or contributed to? > When you fixed the problem i was having and got Evo working on one > machine i was almost ready to donate even though i am a little > scottish and very careful about avoiding spending. If Evo had a > "donate" button in easy reach i might have clicked it for some small > amount, maybe $5 or $10. There are several websites that allow you to post bounties on project bugs. I have bounties on project bugs, including ones on Evolution. Some have been closed. Generally the developer's response is - I don't care. In the past I've offered as much as several hundred dollars on a bug, had it closed, and been told by the developer he didn't care about the bounty. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:[email protected]> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
