On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Mark Deibert <[email protected]>wrote:
> @Filippo and a couple others: Are you arguing that it would be acceptable > to forcibly close and eliminate all other programming communities because > SO/SE is so absolutely perfect that we don't need any other online > communities? I am certainly not saying that, no, not at all. Perhaps I came off that way, I'm told I play the devil's advocate[1] role pretty well ;) > > If we have someone to set it up and it can be managed by users, I vote for > a stand-alone CouchDB community. It can then generate it's own ad income. > Give that money to the guys busting their butts building CouchDB! > > Yeah, again, I'm not taking a position against taking it in-house. I just would rather not see it detract from the community's core competency of improving couchdb. And it doesnt have to... the community will grow and with it, the pool of talent and ways to contribute will also grow. Hell, awhile back, I started in on an "aggregator to trump all aggregators" portal thinger... based around commentary in one of these ML threads. I didn't stick with it, but the idea still intrigues me. [1] Not in the same tier as Lonesome Dove, but also a good movie
