On 8/26/07, Andreas Røsdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > As you are probably aware, I (vasc) am no longer actively coding for > > this project. I used to be active in the past, before I, and the other > > maintainers, felt we had better avenues to pursue and went elsewhere. > > But we still have a place in our heart for this project. See: > > http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3229/analyses/latest/contributors > > > > We have some new manpower but the House of Freeciv is a bit ruined. > > > > Dust and mothballs are piling up. I believe the first place to start > > with, now that the game code and data, our crown jewels, are safe, is > > communication. I believe e-mail lists, news, forums are relics of the past. > > > > We should offload all our public group communications to Google Groups. > > > > Why? > > - Nearly everyone already has a Google account. > > - The freeciv-dev and player forum discussions are public anyway. > > - It takes no extra maintainer effort from us. > > - It does e-mail and it does web forums. > > > > Please discuss. > > > Hello, > > I think that Freeciv still should have this mailing list, it's has > probably been crucial for the project in the past, and I don't think that > has changed much. Many of the successfull open source projects still use > mailing lists. > > Why is the "House of Freeciv a bit ruined"? I would think that there are > still a lot of people interested in the project... :-) > > > - Andreas R. >
Google Groups are nice and spiffy and everything, but are they really a web forum replacement? One of the wonders with a web forum is the very low threshold of participation. I can think of several non-techie contributors who started out as anonymous posters there... Vasco, by "dust and mothballs" do you mean in the code base, or is it the infrastructure that is collecting dust? ~Daniel _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
