Re: Rif: Re: Rif: [Envolution-devel] eNvolution vs Postnuke

[Scott K. <sc...@ki...>]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:54, Luc...@cs... wrote:
> I saw the roadmap, but it's dated august 2002, i believe that to send a
> message that means 'we are alive and kicking' we need to update it also
> considering that maybe we are changing plans; besides we need to publish
> some planned dates, I know that it will be difficult to stick to these
> statement and respect these deadlins, but it gives the people the feeling
> that we work towards a goal.
> To silence people that worry about how 'big it they have', and confront the
> 2 community ("i've got more people than you ....") we could publish the
> roll of the developers with their role (we must admit they did it and it
> gives the appearance of an organized thing) we have a good explanation of
> the roles, but lack the roster of people, think it's the last 20% we need
> to complete the work.
> By
> L
> 

I would disagree with publishing dates for releases. It turns out that
people will hold off from installing until the new release comes out
that has a feature or tool they personally want. It also means that if
we do not deliver on the date or before then criticism most certianly
folows becuase the date wasn't kept.

Many large open source projects and companies have policy to NOT publish
release dates for those very reasons. Debian and Red Hat are two off the
top of my head.

What DOES send a signal that we are alive and kicking is activity in the
forums ...OUR forums...and other sites forums where we consistantly talk
positivly about envolution and this fine community.

Frequent updates in news stories on development ideas and experiements
also are good at sending this message to both our community and to
visitors.

I am very please to see that some of our developers are jumping in the
forums and offering answers to end users....if each developer on this
list makes a presence in the forumss just one time each day then people
will KNOW we are active. This alone I believe will pay rewards to our
community by generating more participation from current members who are
inactive or from visitors who are curious.

As for updates to the road map I am not against that. As long as the
underlying principles of longer product life span and development cycle
are not comprimised.

Zoom