These sounds like a very clever idea: "would ask though to keep the Google
group focused on just the new web site and leave the discussion about the
future of Stripes here on the mailing list."
This should be a priority: "What I am more interested in at this point is
the formulation of a vision of where Stripes needs to go and a very
high-level plan on how to get there." Any ideas?
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Edward Smith <esm...@peopleanswers.com>wrote:
> While I appreciate the enthusiasm and effort, right now my concern is not
> with hashing out details to a new web site for Stripes. I was disappointed,
> though not surprised, to learn that Tim is no longer involved and that is a
> much bigger issue. Basically we're all on a ship without a captain and thus
> have no idea where we're going.
>
> Many successful Open Source projects have a name behind it: Spring - Rod
> Johnson, Grails - Graeme Rocher, JBoss - Marc Fleury, Hibernate - Gavin
> King, etc. Tim is/was the name behind Stripes.
>
> What I am more interested in at this point is the formulation of a vision
> of where Stripes needs to go and a very high-level plan on how to get there.
> As the old saying goes, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Creating a
> new, updated web site is a good high-level idea but there are a lot more
> top-level issues to resolve than the web site.
>
> Having said all that, keep up the effort in driving the discussion about
> the new web site. I won't argue with someone who is passionate about
> something and takes ownership of it. I would ask though to keep the Google
> group focused on just the new web site and leave the discussion about the
> future of Stripes here on the mailing list.
>
> Ed
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aurangzeb Agha [mailto:ama...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 4:40 PM
> To: stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Stripes-users] New Stripes Website Google Group (Repost)
>
> Edward Smith <esm...@...> writes:
>
> >
> > Personally, I like all the activity on the Stripes Users List and would
> prefer
> to keep it here. All the recent
> > activity makes Stripes look vibrant and alive rather than dead and/or
> dying
> which is a good thing. If we
> > start deviating too quickly from what community support Stripes has (i.e.
> this
> mailing list) the
> > resulting division will only hurt Stripes, not help it.
>
> Hi Ed --
>
> I could live with that. However, I'd want to keep using Google Groups so
> we can maintain documents such as this:
>
> Possible Site Architecture
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/stripeswebsite/web/possible-site-architecture
>
> Anyone can view this file, but to contribute to it, you have to be a member
> of the Google Group--I don't think it would be productive to try and hash
> this out in multiple iterations over the list.
>
> I'm happy to post here whenever a doc is added there.
>
>
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