On Feb 6, 2008 3:22 AM, Bob Buffone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin, > > We have exchanged emails on this topic before and even spoken in person > about XAP. I as you have encouraged the XAP team to ONLY communicate > via the mailing list. So let me ask again to everyone involved in XAP. > > XAP Committers > Everyone has worked hard on this project for the last year and a half, I > have over 2500 emails in my Jira folder and a 1093 in the commits > folder. This is only 50% of what we need to do, let's be diligent about > using the mailing list, and building community. > > A great code base isn't enough.
yeh (that's the slightly frustrating thing) there are so many reasons why an active list is good when accessing an open source project, lots of people look for activity on the mailing lists the mailing list creates document for the project. discussions on list are indexed by search engines and provide a rich description of what the project is all about. there's the social side: it's really cool collaborating with people scattered across the world. IMHO the general attritude to posters here is good but an inactive list discourages posters. using open mailing lists is designing for serendipity: some of the most fun stuff happens when someone just shows up on a list and say "here we can do this" - robert
