Vincent Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Mathieu Roy wrote:
>> I would go for - Adeos
>> - Haver Ain't Very Exciting, Really
>> - Livret du Libre
>> as elected list. But I must tell that I do not know much about all
>> these projects apart from their description on their main page.
>
>    Adeos looks like an impressive technical achievment, and a complex
> thing. There is a nice usage of Gna! facilities, with direct links to
> the news interface, download area (usage of README), etc. Every
> information is barely more than two clicks away. I like it :). I guess
> there are ton of questions to ask only to understand the project, and
> I also guess there's some industry support to uncover here.
>
>    Haver as sadly a dummy home page. And an empty CVS. The download
> area is complete though, deb+tarballs. We should ask for some
> screenshots. I wonder how it compares to stuff like GnomeMeeting.
>
>    Livret du Libre: owned by people from the small fsfe-france
> comunity :). We could be regarded as a bit egocentric if we started
> our first interview with them. And it's french-only, not one of our
> core value (english is more portable :)). Of course I like the project
> very much.
>
>    My short trick to find out projects where there's "something" :
>
> lisa:cvs$ nice du -csm !(*.homepage)|sort -n|tail -n25
>
> 10      intense
> 11      cantus
> 12      gswebkit
> 13      bankiz
> 14      webbase
> 15      clgestion
> 15      exitium
> 15      ordnometer
> 15      qomics
> 18      latexfr
> 18      rwvsndj
> 21      rachel
> 25      wormux
> 27      ngl
> 32      slune
> 35      arkhart
> 36      brillant
> 39      xmule
> 43      savane
> 47      mtptarget
> 80      adeos
> 91      rtai
> 273     underware
>
>    I'd suggest 'Wormux' and 'Slune', which are both pretty active and
> look very nice. Actually, I WANT to install Wormux tonight now that I
> saw how it evolved :). 'Bankiz' is also cute. Now it just happens that
> they are all games, maybe the return of the famous 'French touch'
> :).

There is a bias in your method: you look for projects with lot of
data in kB. Games usually contains sound and images, which takes lot
of space. Their size does not reflect necessarily their maturity.


So it looks like we both agree on starting with Adeos, arent we?

-- 
Mathieu Roy

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