On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:32 PM, [email protected]<[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for this Antti, I really want this to be a constructive > dialogue hard to maintain threads in this kind of group and you tend > to have an instant meeting of mindsin a google group as opposed to > people picking up past topics and adding new dynamics to them. I > understand the bots issue (and also the spam and just petty vandalism) > and gardening that needs to go on in these boards to weed them to be > useful (although this place is not immune to spam or hatemail > either!). > > I'm sure if you asked a trusted few here would be willing to police > the exisiting board, > > I think that a place for newbie’s would be useful as well, you > probably will get a lot of repeat questions about driver/ board > compatibilities, basic steps for servers and 32/64 bit issues coming > up and having a “first base” site might be useful. (I might even be > interested in running that!). but if you can’t attract the likes > Pqerk, emerald and Loti here you’re losing a major backbone of > potential support and the groundswell needed to push Realxtend to the > next level! > > Moni >
Speaking as an engineer working on open source, there is simply too input to reasonably sort through in a day and still get work accomplished. I get hundreds of emails per day -- and that's after I've unsubscribed to all but the most central. I delete half without reading, skim the other half, and maybe seriously ponder only a couple. I have IM contacts, live IRC, IRC logs from when I was sleeping, bug lists, RSS feeds, research papers, hard-cover books, and code to read through -- and that's before even thinking of any form of writing. I don't think I dare add meetings in there. Adding a forum as a requirement on my time is a non-starter. If you want a web forum, and don't like reading google groups web interface, then I suggest hosting a 3rd part forum on maxping for example. Antti might be able to find someone here to stop working on reX-NG long enough to reinstall and configure a forum solution, but it can't then be expected to be visited by developers. It'd be purely for community by community. I appreciate that realXtend appears to have lost momentum while we rewrite, but really it was do that, or slowly lose momentum due to a terminally ill code-base. Realistically speaking, it will take a while before reX gets good again, and by that time the community will have lost some members. We accept this as a necessary evil required to have shot at accomplishing the things we set out to accomplish. (And from a certain point of view, now is the best time possible to refocus, as the change in economy has put us in bottom of the hype-cycle, and there is not much else to do but bear down and wait for the tide to rise.) I don't think the problem with the community is lack of a forum -- it's lack of cool software to play with, and that will only be fixed when developers are working on making software. An open source community is about give-and-take, and I hope people worried about the future of reX decide to give back -- instead of make a run on the bank of good will when things look a little cloudy. Cheers, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
