I agree with Fabio. This project is maintained for free, and we have nothing to say except thanks :)
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote: > The nhforge site is maintained mostly by NHibernate MVPs (mostly no > committers). > We have only to say: Thanks guys!!! > > The issue tracker is where we can publish it for free. We have moved it > various times. > > Google groups instead forums was a specific discussion in our dev-list. We > can enable forums in nhforge site but we prefer google groups. > > About "I think you are going to turn off any new users with that crappy > web site."... well, there is nothing we can do. > I have to use a famous phrase: > Don't ask yourself what the NH's team can do for you; ask yourself what you > can do for the project is helping you in your professional/commercial life, > for free. > > Then, only for your information, the penultimate release (2.1.2 binaries) > have had more than 104K downloads in a year (for NHibernate is the record). > For sure, we are doing something wrong but, apparently, many developers > does not care (or perhaps they are more interested in what we are doing > well). ;) > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Jon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Sorry if this is a rude email, but, for the love of god, please do >> something about the web site and documentation for NHibernate. I >> absolutely hate the web site. Back when JBoss used to run the show, >> one of the best things about NHibernate was the kick ass forums and >> good documentation. Ever since nhforge.org was setup, it has >> absolutely sucked. There used to be API documentation in a .chm. That >> disappeared for a long time. Not sure if it reappeared or not. Does no >> one think that documentation is important? Even the downloads section >> looks like crap. You would think that the main files would be at the >> top and that there would be some organization to it. Why is >> NHibernate.Spatial at the top? When you click on the Groups section it >> doesn't even work because the groups are on Google now. Plus, the >> Google groups appear to suck compared to the software the JBoss is >> running. >> >> The issue tracker looks like it's not even using a host name? It makes >> you have to wonder whether the person who set this up has a clue as to >> what they are doing and it makes the project look bad in general. >> >> Maybe the code is great, and you think that I'm focusing on the >> unimportant, but, I think you are going to turn off any new users with >> that crappy web site. >> >> It would also be great if someone could convince the people that run >> nhibernate.org to update the the main page for NHibernate to point to >> the current version. It really is unfortunate that Redhat screwed over >> NHibernate because it was run in a lot more organized fashion before. >> >> Jon >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nhusers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Fabio Maulo > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nhusers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" 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/nhusers?hl=en.
