On Nov 15, 2007 12:46 AM, Gregory John Casamento <
greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
Also, I'm not convinced that having a forum will go very far to solving
our problems. Yes, exposure is important. But another project called
gcc, you may have heard of it, has used and still uses a mailing list.
People don't seem to have a problem with it. And they don't seem to
suffer for "being different." So, incidentally, does Linux. It's
called the kernel-dev mailing list. Linux CERTAINLY hasn't suffered for
it. What I'm saying is that, you haven't proven to me any
correlation between success and having a forum. Perhaps it will help, perhaps it
won't... but applications will help more.
Just playing devil's advocate here, as I don't necessarily support the idea of a forum... GCC and Linux are not toolkits/frameworks! GCC also has an extra blocking point to forums in that it's an application, not a "large library of reusable software". The fact is that GNUstep is a very different beast and as such would need to be treated differently. Also, one of your previous points were that we shouldn't be doing/not doing things because other projects are/aren't.
Stefan