Re: [vassalengine-devel] Welcome to vassalengine.org Forums
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From: Bsmith <bs...@ne...> - 2007-12-10 02:34:45
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I'm in disagreement here. This is an Open Source project so dev time is hard to come by; Getting someone to work fulltime on implementing a system which supports every communications standard is time better spent on supporting the majority of users which... and we *must* face this obvious fact... are people on windows platforms using Internet Explorer or Firefox. Most of the Internet has learned this by now, they know e-mail lists are a twitching corpse; Hence the reason people have moved away from them en-mass and there are no massive efforts to make sure they are supported or even offered as an option. Expecting this project to support half a dozen people who may be invonvenienced by having to check a webpage is, in my mind, a much lower priority than supporting the 50 average Joes who just want to get the #@$! Command & Colors module working! And if developers threaten to leave a project because they are more interested in helping themselves than the people who actually use the software then my opinion, that's no loss. Having said all that though, the new forum does support a mailing list so at least we can come close to helping some people. > The principle here is that we should be as permissive as we can with > respect to how the user interacts with the communication channel. > > I was incredulous to find so little work done on bridging fora and lists > when I searched the net to find out how to do it. It's something that I > expected to be part of every reasonable forum implementation, but seemed > not to be on the radar of any forum developers. (There's a similar > situation with respect to whole-site authentication. It's such an obvious > thing---if you're designing a web service that requires authentication, > wouldn't it make more sense to have the authentication be pluggable, so > that you could hand off that task to a package which specializes in > authentication handling, rather than write your own custom authentication > code which isn't compatible with anything else?) > > A forum combines a store of information, a way of displaying that > information, and a way of editing that information. It is bad design > if you are forced to use the forum for display and editing just becuase > you want to use the forum as an information store. > > So... those are my thoughts on the matter. > > -- > J. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > vassalengine-devel mailing list > vas...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vassalengine-devel > |