I never had much success in convincing "closed laszlo" to send their OL 
questions to the open lists.  They really need to _always_ be encouraged to do 
so.  If they don't, they are missing most of the OL developers!

The "inside" OL developers can assist in this effort by:

1) When you get a question that is _not_ on the OL list, reply asking the 
questioner to post to the OL list, or

2) At the very least, cc your reply to the OL list.

It's only a small effort, but it is crucial to both keeping the OL project 
alive _and_ getting the best answer to OL questions!

On 2011-07-06, at 09:37, Raju Bitter wrote:

> Unfortunately the trend continues: Just to give you an idea of the
> activity in the past, and the rapid decline in 2010/2011:
> 
> Average messages sent to the laszlo-dev mailing list per month:
> 
> 2007                  233 messages
> 2008                  525 messages
> 2009                  285 messages
> 2010 Jan-Jun    125 messages
> 2010 Jul-Dec     108 messages
> 2011 Jan-Jun     54 messages
> 
> If Laszlo continues to let OpenLaszlo decline with the current rate,
> the project is dead by 2012 latest. The only hope is that someone
> acquires Laszlo quickly. But who knows what  new owner of the company
> would do with OpenLaszlo...
> 
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Raju Bitter
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Great, thanks Amy. And enjoy the weekend!
>> 
>> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Amy Muntz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Raju,
>>> 
>>> We really are working on OpenLaszlo! There has been a lot of work going on
>>> behind the scenes and you are right that we've become lax in always cc'ing
>>> laszlo-dev as we should - especially when there is so much expertise out
>>> there to help with issues. It's good to see that the forums are still very
>>> active.  For my part, I will be more vigilant about cc'ing laszlo-dev with
>>> what's happening - starting now!
>>> 
>>> It's a long holiday weekend here in the states, so expect things to improve
>>> next week :)
>>> 
>>> Amy
>>> 
>>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Raju Bitter
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks a lot, Don. That sounds interesting, rewrite of the event
>>>> system! Tell me if I can help you, maybe doing some testing with that.
>>>> 
>>>> Raju
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Donald Anderson <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Raju!
>>>>> I'm here, working on (mostly) compiler and performance related issues,
>>>>> and
>>>>> sometimes other things.  I've needed to take some time away the last
>>>>> week,
>>>>> so I've been rather quiet.  And I've been working on integrating Andre's
>>>>> event system rewrite and that kept me pretty focused (and quiet).
>>>>> - Don
>>>>> On May 27, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 40-50% of emails for the past 8 weeks, to be correct.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Raju Bitter
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> It looks like the mailing list traffic is pretty much down for the
>>>>> 
>>>>> past two weeks. Looking at the archives, I can see that 40-50% of the
>>>>> 
>>>>> mails sent to the list seem to be my own emails, and the activity is
>>>>> 
>>>>> really down. The posting rate diagram shown here
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.openlaszlo.devel proofs that the
>>>>> 
>>>>> activity has never been that low since 2005/2006.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there still someone working on the OpenLaszlo platform at the
>>>>> 
>>>>> moment? Just getting a bit concerned...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Don Anderson
>>>>> Java/C/C++, Berkeley DB, systems consultant
>>>>> 
>>>>> voice: 617-306-2057
>>>>> email: [email protected]
>>>>> www: http://www.ddanderson.com
>>>>> blog: http://libdb.wordpress.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 


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