The reason it's called The Herd: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=144
2008/11/6 indolering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Can we call it something with better connotations than "The Herd?" > > I mean, the democrats lost, badly, for the past 8 years because they > failed to correctly frame (http://tiny.cc/frame448) their viewpoints > and evoke the right emotions, until Barak got them all excited with > his rhetoric. > > It's hard to get excited about being a cow : ( > > > Oh, and now we should get back on topic : ) > -Zak > > On Nov 4, 6:39 am, "Abimanyu Raja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Haha..yes. We should do that. > > > > 2008/11/4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Why not get Ubiquity on addons.mozilla.com in the first place? > > > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Abimanyu Raja <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > > >> Yep, the social aspects like on addons.mozilla.com should also be > part of > > >> The Herd, imo. > > > > >> I agree with Gary. That's why I wanted to include improving > performance as > > >> a major goal. Specifically, the tickets he mentioned, adding back old > > >> features and replacing the annotation service. Regarding planning for > 0.2, I > > >> think it's just about setting the long term goals. In the end, they > have to > > >> be broken to smaller milestones as Aza said. So, I think that > performance > > >> issues, a goal for 0.2, should probably be the focus for 0.1.4 > (assuming > > >> 0.1.3 is focused on skinning). Or we should swap the focuses. 0.1.3 > should > > >> be for performance issues. I would really like the context menu and > > >> noun-first suggestions back. And of course, we should really try not > to > > >> break people's current behavior (esp. noun-first suggestions). > > > > >> I feel like we need to delegate work (at least for a few key issues) > to > > >> make faster progress. > > > > >> - Abi > > > > >> 2008/11/4 Gary Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >> Hi guys, > > > > >>> Whilst some of the goals for 0.2 sound fun, in my opinion there are > some > > >>> fundamentals that perhaps should be addressed beforehand. For > example, > > >>> reintroducing functionality that was lost with 0.1.2 (e.g. tickets > #358, > > >>> #359 & #394 are some I raised about this :-), stabilising the > codebase, and > > >>> addressing performance. Something else that really needs addressing > is the > > >>> trust-network and the way commands are subscribed to. I've read a few > blog > > >>> posts, and received a couple of emails, saying that the major factor > that is > > >>> stopping people from adopting Ubiquity is the security risk of > subscribing > > >>> to new commands. > > > > >>> Perhaps these are planned for a prior release, but considering 0.1.2 > was > > >>> about 6 weeks late, and 0.1.3 still has 28 active tickets, planning > 0.2 for > > >>> the end of 2008 seems a little over-ambitious. I don't want to rain > on the > > >>> parade - I love hacking away at new stuff with the best of them - but > > >>> without some core stability I think the user base will lose interest > and > > >>> we'll be left with an interesting toy for a handful of people, but no > > >>> wide-spread adoption. > > > > >>> Of course this is only my take on things, and perhaps not seeing the > > >>> bigger picture :-) I hope these comments are taken in a positive > way. > > > > >>> Cheers > > > > >>> Gary > > > > >>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Fernando Takai < > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>> > wrote: > > > > >>>> Yes, but herd needs to be improved. For example, we need to add > social > > >>>> features like rating, commenting -- and we need to have a place to > host > > >>>> commands, like gist, but ours. > > > > >>>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Dean Landolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > > >>>>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Fernando Takai < > > >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >>>>>> Ubiquity planet is like an addon.firefox.com for commands (if im > not > > >>>>>> mistaken). > > > > >>>>> Wouldn't that be the Herd? > > > > >>>>> Typically planets are just aggregators for specific communities of > > >>>>> interest [1] -- so of people that often blog about Ubiquity, it's > just one > > >>>>> central place that pulls in those posts. Unless you mean something > else, > > >>>>> Aza? > > > > >>>>> [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_%28software%29> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_%28software%29> > > > > >>>> -- > > >>>> Fernando "Takai" > > >>>>http://flickr.com/photos/supeertakai > > >>>>http://fernandotakai.wordpress.com > > >>>>http://fernandotakai.jaiku.com > > > > > -- > > > Mayuresh > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
