On Mon, Nov 28, 2005, OpenPKG wrote: > OpenPKG Registry finally launched! > [...]
The first questions pop up around the OpenPKG Registry. We will try hard to answer all of them to you. Let me just share a few personal points with you: The OpenPKG Registry is still far away from being a final and good solution. Thomas Lotterer and I investigated already about 6 man-weeks to implement what we now have and although we know best ourself that it is still far away from being optimal, some environmental conditions forced us to already activate it at this point in time. People who know me personally are surprised about this decision as I'm always very well known to not easily push something new out before it isn't really cleaned up multiple times, tested in depth, etc. But with the OpenPKG Registry we had no alternative and had to have nerve. We even prepared ourself having to accept and understand occurring complains. Thomas and I will try hard to fix all still remaining bugs, soon also add the necessary and still missing documentation, etc. But more important than making the OpenPKG Registry a flawless and clean solution is that you use it ALREADY NOW to personally register with the OpenPKG project as a known OpenPKG fellow. The reason simply is that very soon we have to make essential decisions on the future of OpenPKG and for optimally aligning those decisions to YOUR needs we have to KNOW YOU first. To some extend it will be already sufficient for us to know how LARGE our community actually is (people and instances!). That's what we finally try to gather with the OpenPKG Registry. That's also the reason why we currently do not ask for lots of personal information (like others do during a registration process), although it certainly would also help us. But we tried very hard to create an as less as possible burden on you with the OpenPKG Registry. We know that all people like anonymous access as it provides the maximum flexibility and the easiest start. OTOH it is a major problem for the project as we do not know at least to some little degree whether we have just 100 or 100.000 users. But for doing the right thing and in the right direction for the OpenPKG future it is vital to know at least how large and spreaded our community actually is. Because, to be honest, for just 100 users it makes no sense at all to further establish additional OpenPKG services we already have in our queue. OTOH, for 10.000 users it makes sense, of course. As we have the possibility for providing new and essential OpenPKG services in the near future, we are under heavy time pressure to figure out as soon as possible whether those services really make sense or not. Companies who charge you a lot of money for their products easily can grant you something if you give them feedback. We since five years already give out all of our resources fully free of charge and to anybody, hence the only chance for us to get feedback is to reverse the model to some extend and apply at least restrictions on the allowed anonymity. Please support the OpenPKG project by going to http://registry.openpkg.org/ and registering as an OpenPKG fellow as soon as possible. In case of any non-public questions, wishes or complains, please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll try to answer your questions either directly or by adding the answers to http://registry.openpkg.org/help Thanks for your understanding. Ralf S. Engelschall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.engelschall.com ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
