[Audacity-devel] Re: Audacity-devel digest, Vol 1 #1770 - 6 msgs

[Kiddo <nek...@gm...>]

> And yes, I also receive private emails from russian users who consider
> Audacity abandoned project.

That is, in my opinion, partly due to:
a) the website. It LOOKS dead. The last release was almost one year
ago. And I think the website could have a little facelift. I could do
it for you guys if you wish. Even openoffice.org did it, why not
audacity? ;)

b) people are now accustomed to GNOME/Ubuntu/Fedora having this motto:
"release early, release often". My point is that even if you don't
have much in a release, you should at LEAST release once every six
months, better if it's 3 months or less! Even if it is minor bugfixes
and cleanup, this is important for "marketing". It shows your users
that you are still doing stuff. And, maybe some people might join in
instead of doing forks and everything.


One example of very bad "marketed FOSS software" I have in my mind is
PiTiVi. Bilboed did ONE release, and then continued working without
putting even news or beta releases or anything, I had to force-kick
his butt (by showing statistics of his sourceforge web account!) to be
able to convince him to make a better website (you don't want to know
what the old one looked like... terribly outdated and broken ;).

Sorry for not replying too much, but I've been reading every
UI-related discussion since then, it's just that I didn't reply unless
I had something interesting to say.

Jeff