John Wilger wrote: > But honestly, if you can't get /some/ idea of what the project is > about by looking at the first few lines of what's changed, and further > go on to complain about the lack of information on the site when > there's a fairly obvious link to "Project Info" in the header > (pointing to the info I copied and pasted above) -- then there's > really just no hope of us playing nicely together.
Thanks for the explanation. Now you might want to reconsider this attitude. I get hundreds of messages per day and you're a guest in my inbox. If you're imposing on my time or attention, the burden is upon you to tell me up front what it's about and why I should care; otherwise, you're just another spammer -- sheesh, some spammers actually demonstrate better communication skills. Your message was clearly intended to promote the project. It does a poor job of that if it assumes prior knowledge of and interest in the project. If you didn't intend promotion, then why are you sending it a suite of unrelated lists? Send it to an opt-in list dedicated to the project and then you can assume everyone knows and cares. Having a secondary link that explains your project after I arrive at its home page is just bad design and poor communication. Your default landing page should introduce the user to the project, not assume they know what's up and and bury them in bullet points describing your recent changes. As an XP proponent, you might care to reread the Agile Manifesto and ask yourself if your project's website and your communication to these lists is aligned with its priorities. Maybe you should make a story card for communication with agile developers who might be interested in but are as yet unaware of eXPlainPMT? Perhaps another card for developers who are both unaware and uninterested, yet subscribe to interest groups only peripherally connected? -- Devin Ben-Hur 503/860-4114 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Startups are basically comedies, or at least seem so in retrospect." -- Paul Graham -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.5.10/774 - Release Date: 4/23/2007 5:26 PM _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
