> - Audience and "Marketing": > Specifically, it is directed towards users, who hope to find > something useful for their own projects. (Those users may turn > into contributors over time!)
It takes too much effort to support a user base for a project that changes rapidly (ie any 'alpha' status code). Hence these parts are not advertised very well. It should stay that way. > I cannot understand why Leo and Ceki refer to the document (and, > by implication, others like it) as "Marketing" - a term which > carries in this context clearly condescending connotations. as dion said. When a project you are working on very hard for a long time is listed as "immature" or something like that, it is very hard to find the right wording for a response. > - Users vs Developers again, I personally distinguish between alpha, beta and final releases. You only offer "support" (answers to mailing list questions) for released products. > - Personal Assessment and Maintenance: > In terms of maintenance: Once everything is set up, this should > not take too much effort (just updates of revision numbers and > release dates, really). I think I also hinted (cough) that I > might be willing to help with that (to the degree that I have > available resources, of course) provided that maintaining such > an overview document at all is solidly supported by the community. as we say: documentation is always welcome! > Now what? > ========= > > The "News" section has also disappeared - I consider > that a bit sad: I think some measure for the activity of the > project would be helpful, but there may be better ways to determine > it. I would have thought that the date of the most recent release > would not be considered a "subjective judgement". it's simply not a good indicator. FA, almost nothing happens over at Avalon Framework, but it gets more releases than the way more busy other Avalon parts because it is, well, released. > Should we: > - collect suggestions to improve the initial draft so that the > majority here considers it a good thing to have and develop it > further along those line? > - leave it as is? > - drop it altogether? > - replace it with something altogether different? it should, -- after consent by others here -- be merged with the current overview on the front page. That's imho, of course. greetz, - Leo Simons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
