>*You* should care. If you don't have users, you won't get new >contributors while old ones will slowly leave too and the project >just dies. Simple as that. > >Just look at KDE Telepathy, probably one of the biggest Telepathy >clients out there. We've had about 10 everyday developers 5 years ago, >we have two in a _month_ now. And we do have quite an awesome >feature set, yet our users are also declining. Why? Because we don't >support $protocol (and also because mobile).
AFAIAC, I do not use Telepathy a lot because its XMPP support is stale and broken. I'd rather have two developers fix that than 10 devs of which 9 work on non-free protocols. -nik -- PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296 Dominik George · Mobil: +49-151-61623918 Teckids e.V. · FrOSCon e.V. · OpenRheinRuhr e.V. Fellowship of the FSFE · Piratenpartei Deutschland Opencaching Deutschland e.V. · Debian Contributor LPIC-3 Linux Enterprise Professional (Security) _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
