[Gforge-devel] Commit policy?

[Thomas Charron]

  Well, since only the three of us are talking apperently...  Where to?
Forums is fine with me, I'd prefer email, but your right, Forums are more
visible for people to notice activity and participate in the conversation.

  .oO { GDI, why can't a forum ALSO be a mailing list...  OhoHoh..  Idea!  }

On 10/5/06, Roland Mas <lolando at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Tim Perdue, 2006-10-05 03:14:50 -0500 :
>
> > The old core team of french guys all quit working on the project a
> > couple years ago,
>
> That's not entirely true.  While we haven't worked much on the core of
> Gforge itself, Christian and I keep committing stuff, both to keep an
> automated installation doable and to add plugins.  Your other points
> still more or less stand, though.
>
> > and I quit posting here 6 months ago because absolutely no one was
> > responding or supporting me or my team in any way. I provided all
> > the support on the user forum for the last 1-2 years and can't
> > remember the last time someone simply said 'thanks'.
>
>   I don't read web forums (or post on them) as a matter of intense
> dislike for their UI (not Gforge-specific), but I have provided
> support to people contacting me by email, as well as on IRC.
>
> > In order for an open source project to survive, their needs to be
> > people encouraging and supporting it, not just sucking the system
> > dry, which is what happened here. The project got sucked dry and
> > without any feedback from the users, people stopped working on it. I
> > call it the "Rip n Run" mentality of the GForge user base.
>
>   Yeah.  That depressed me at some point too.  As a matter of policy,
> I keep all my developments (including for-hire ones) on Gforge public,
> but not everyone does that, unfortunately.
>
> > I'd suggest consolidating discussions on the user forum so as not to
> > divide attention between two low-volume lists.
>
>   I'd suggest using the (more accessible) mailing-lists instead, but
> consolidating them all into one would indeed be a good move.
>
> Roland.
> --
> Roland Mas
>
> Why did the elephant cross the road?
> Because it was the chicken's day off.
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