Alan Young wrote:
with no response. Perhaps a signed petition by several LDS developers would do
the
trick, what do you all think about that?
The church doesn't respond well to petitions, regardless of the source
or the reason, from what I've seen.
The most you can hope for is that someone on this list has the ear (or
*is* the ear) of someone who can bring it up in the right places so
it'll be considered. Don't hold your breath though ... the church
takes a very long time to make changes.
Hmmm ... after proof-reading that I realized it sounded petulant and
bitter towards the church in general. I don't mean it that way, nor
against any person or individual in the church (except for whomever
decided to go with Winblows! :>). I actually think it's a good thing,
for the most part.
I think so too. It used to bother me that it's so tough to reach people
at Church headquarters, but now I have the perception that the Church
likes to work on big projects while leaving incremental improvements in
the hands of motivated people. For example, while the Church made PAF
available as a catalyst for genealogy work, the Church never had the
resources to make PAF as featureful as other packages. Thus, in my
view, the Church actually hopes that people will produce software better
than PAF.
The big project strategy works alright for most things, but the magazine
article web service idea is a small project that would require access to
the database. Some kind of creative solution will be required to get
that done.
Shane
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