> > Desparately short sighted: if you leave a web site > > untouched for a year, most people will assume its > > dead and move on. In discussions about JS client > > frameworks I've already seen several comments suggesting > > that MK development is dead. > > > How hard can it be to tag the repository and > > update a couple lines of text on a web page? > > It's enough of a hassle. Honestly, I don't care if anyone uses > MochiKit or anything else, they should pick whatever works for them. > MochiKit is not a marketing exercise, I don't do consulting and I'm > not terribly interested in speaking about JavaScript at conferences > right now. We use it, it works great for us. I'd like to do a release, > but I care a lot more about what my company is actually working on > right now. MochiKit hasn't changed much lately because we got it to > the point where it does what we want it to do and we haven't needed a > whole lot else from it. The big mistake that I made was accepting a > bunch of functionality that we had no intention of using internally, > which is what's holding up the release because it doesn't pass quality > control as far as code audit and docs go. I'm not really comfortable > tagging what's in there as a release in its current state.
I guess I would argue that looking like a dead project is bad, as it causes people to eliminate perfectly good software from consideration. You may be maintaining it and slowly adding well-considered expansions, but that is not at all apparent to someone looking at frameworks. In short, the web site is misleading. As to the state of the current main trunk - that's up to the maintainers: if it still needs to bake a while, don't tag. But I see that as a separate issue from the 'liveliness' of the web-site. Even if you were to just post some text once a quarter saying "Hey we're still here and working on the next release", it would be a huge improvement. Ross --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
