Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 14 May 2009, at 10:22:19 (+0200), Thomas Gst?dtner wrote: If people tried to keep it simple without a service to limit them this would be no advantage at all. E.g. many blog systems support a digest, if you click on it you see the full message (not saying blogs would be the

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Michael Jennings e-de...@kainx.org wrote: On Wednesday, 13 May 2009, at 13:38:30 (+0200), Thomas Gst?dtner wrote: Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that doesn't have any advantage over anything else, instead of maintaining a official

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri barbi...@profusion.mobi wrote: my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is not stopping any development work on his front, it's just bonus... Of course he is

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:38 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote: Of course he is free to do whatever he wants, it's a free world (erm, however). I'm sure this won't keep him from doing his work, but I'm still a little

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Luchezar Petkov
I was actually supposed to run a blog about E stuff, but due to... a lot of reasons I stopped. It wasn't anything official (not linked from e.org) anyway. Afaik someone else made the same effort (in the same time with me, thats one of the reasons)Last time I talked with people (well,

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Luchezar Petkov luchezar.pet...@gmail.com wrote: I think the biggest problem here is that we actually don't ... make much news related to end users. Code is being commited daily, but thats mostly cleanups, (small) bug fixes, refactoring, etc. Not much new

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli mcalame...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:38 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote: Of course he is free to do whatever he wants, it's a free world (erm,

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:33:54 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote: That's exactly what I think. As I said, if there is interest I'd be free as an author, even though I'm not a dev and only sent some trivial patches. For me, thumbs

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 13 May 2009 22:45:56 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri barbi...@profusion.mobi said: my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is not stopping any development work on his front, it's just bonus... if raster stops

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Luchezar Petkov
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri barbi...@profusion.mobi wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Luchezar Petkov luchezar.pet...@gmail.com wrote: I think the biggest problem here is that we actually don't ... make much news related to end users. Code is being

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:38 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net said: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri barbi...@profusion.mobi wrote: my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli mcalame...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could be integrated into our community. The account is here: http://www.twitter.com/edevel For it

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Toma
2009/5/13 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli mcalame...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could be integrated into our community. The

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:38:30 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote: Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that doesn't have any advantage over anything else, instead of maintaining a official information source on

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:04:15 +0800 Toma tomha...@gmail.com wrote: 1. A 140 character news feed hardly takes any management. 2. Most professionals and popular people have a twitter. (I dont though.) 3. Would you rather us (dev community) take

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Jennings
On Wednesday, 13 May 2009, at 13:38:30 (+0200), Thomas Gst?dtner wrote: Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that doesn't have any advantage over anything else, instead of maintaining a official information source on e.org with 1) no 140 char limit 2) more professionalism

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Arlo White
Regardless of the method, I think there should be two enlightenment information streams: one for users and one for developers. Yes there are mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig through to get at the interesting bits. The value of a blog or twitter is that it's

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Graham Gower
2009/5/14 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com: Yes there are mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig through to get at the interesting bits. Garbage like this entire thread? Isn't this a development mailing list? -Graham

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Toma
2009/5/14 Graham Gower graham.go...@gmail.com: 2009/5/14 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com: Yes there are mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig through to get at the interesting bits. Garbage like this entire thread? Isn't this a development mailing list? -Graham

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Arlo White
Garbage probably wasn't the best word because of the negative connotation. What I mean is a lot of threads on the mailing list rapidly lose value. A thread about a bug that is later fixed is no longer interesting to most people. This thread will have little value once a decision is made. I

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
2009/5/13 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com: Regardless of the method, I think there should be two enlightenment ...snip... obsolete.  A blog system really makes the most sense to me. I agree with you, but I know that most of potentially authors don't have free time for writing articles Once

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread andres
(not answering to anyone in particular) Planet E should be the enlightenment blog. Currently it is usless because is filled with non-enlightenment news but I plan to fix that with some filters after finishing the website design, it should be simple enough. For users, eXchange has a RSS feed

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is not stopping any development work on his front, it's just bonus... if raster stops hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK and beat him to death :-)

[E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-12 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could be integrated into our community. The account is here: http://www.twitter.com/edevel For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but obviously can contains all