Re: New Committers Davide and Ryan

[Walter]

Hi James, thanks for the comments. In hindsight I was thinking user was sort of like customer-user, rather than developer-user. Now I can see the difference after the past 10 days or so watching the threads. I'm not a developer of code, but more a customer who would drive functionality. However, I recently learned that a lot of the customers-users are large corporations who use the code for their own operations and software development, so they pay their employees (who are developers) to participate in the open source development. This way they get more than one mind working on code for their own projects. I understand recently these are sort of corporate sponsors for an open source project.

Thus, I can see where the forum is really set up for software developer-users that can ask good questions on technical code/integration/implementation issues where I would be a customer looking at open source solutions. Slide and Tapestry both were implemented in our first Phase of development so I subscribed to both user lists to learn what the customer-users were saying, and can see that these threads are really not set up for customers, per se, but mainly for developer-users. I hope this makes sense...I'm still a little fuzzy myself! :)

Thanks again for the reply.

Walt.

James Mason wrote:

Walter,
What exactly are you looking for in "users" list? The majority of the users interested in Slide seem to also be java developers, so a lot of the questions on this list are related to using the Slide webdav client libraries. A lot of bug reports come through the list as well. Some people seem to find it easier to send an email than file a bug report on bugzilla. Go figure :).

Also, I believe the majority of Slide's developers are also users. I know I am. I wouldn't be able to devote much time at all to the project if I wasn't actively using the code. Also, while I haven't been a member of the project for very long, I've been very impressed by the openness and willingness of the developers to get involved with helping users with problems. Personally, I think that's a strength of the project.

What is it about the user's list that you weren't expecting? Maybe we can help you find what you're looking for.

-James

Walter wrote:

Can someone please tell me if this email thread for users or just for developers? I signed up for the users, not the developer section in after the past 10 days or so I only see comments from developers. Can someone tell me where the user section is so that I can get some cooperative commentary for users only? Does such a thread exist?

James Mason wrote:

Welcome welcome :)

Oliver Zeigermann wrote:

Dear Slide community!

We have two new committers, Davide and Ryan.

Welcome to both of you.

Oliver

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