I don't want to stir up a hornets nest. It is my intent to see Mono as a strong enough offering to be able to recommend medium to large companies to commit to an Open technology stack that includes (and relies on) Mono. Forgive me if I am not well informed, I am definitely well intended.
The following are issues that stop this from reaching any sort of reality: 1) There is no visible Mono timeline and release plan. What is Mono's intent and stated goals for the future? Will it try to maintain parity with Microsoft Dot.Net to some level, and if so what level and by what time-line? 1.1) What are mono's resources? 1.2) Who are mono's sponsors? 1.3) Are we resourcing up to maintain pace with our plans? 2) Many projects that should be enablers of achieving a reasonably parity with Microsoft Dot.Net have not been updated since Dec 2008 (such as Olive) If these are no longer strategic the thinking behind this should be made transparent. 3) The mono site has a mix of outdated pages statuses and some (very little) new content. I agree that the code is more important than the site, but it is less than professional to not date each page edit and structure the site so that the latest status and pages are always guaranteed to be clear and navigable. Please fix this. 4) Is mono executing the best strategy (as in - what is best for Mono and the Open Source community) by relying on Mono-Develop? Could we not implement (or at least explore) mono on Eclipse or Netbeans IDE's and concentrate our efforts instead on integrating to a fully mature IDE infrastructure instead of developing YAIDE from scratch without a snow-balls hope in hades of keeping up with the other IDE's? Just a thought. I suggest that the Mono-Project look into the other IDE's, it wont slow down Mono-Develop any and more choice would be good here. Thoughts? Ideas? Comments? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Is-Mono-serious--Is-Mono-still-alive--tp26132878p26132878.html Sent from the Mono - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
