From: Chuck H. <ch...@gl...> - 2012-02-24 05:44:44
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Hi Pascal, On 2012-02-24, at 1:36 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > (Sending this to the wonder-disc list since lists.apple.com is delivering posts with a 2-3 hours delay, again). That poor little G4 must be getting tired again. > A couple of weeks ago, I compiled a sort of Community Roadmap, based on ideas that was shared in the working group and in the surveys. The (quite long) list is on the wiki: > > http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WOCOM/Community+Roadmap > > As you can see, it's a pretty long list… And the problem is: who is going to work on those? And this is where my rant is coming to… Ok, it's not really a rant, but anyway. > > Problem we are facing is that the vast majority said in the surveys that you want to keep using WO (we are still loosing at least 10% of the community every year). So we need to improve things but a handful of people are improving things. I'm not expecting that the majority of the community contributes, I never saw a community where the majority contribute. > > Also, we don't have any support from Apple and we don't have big corporate sponsors (and most places who develops with WO are one or two guy teams). We need to find a way to get things done. Should we have people being paid for work on the community? Have employees? I don't see how we can do that. No one wants them done badly enough to pay for them now, otherwise someone would have a job doing just that. I think most things get added either when a company has a business need and donates the code to Wonder, or Mike gets infected with a desire to try out something. > How can we deal with the fact that most WO experts are working for Apple, leaving the community or are just too busy? Sometimes, I think that WOWODC 2012 should be the last community-driven thing and that the community should just die. > > And as for a personal note: I tried to drive by leadership, and I failed. Maybe the community need a new leader (but at the same time, nobody appointed me as a leader, so it's a bit pretentious from me to say that I'm a leader). I don't think we are very leader friendly. You might have more luck herding cats. :-) Your efforts are appreciated, we would be much worse off without you. Chuck -- Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. http://www.global-village.net/gvc/practical_webobjects |