Re: Are Gnome and Abiword DEAD ?
From: Dragonmaster Lou (lou_at_SPAM.ME.AND.DIE.techhouse.org)
Date: 10/25/04
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:23 +0000 (UTC)
In article <f2375275.0410241928.16310925@posting.google.com>, Penang wrote:
> Linønut <linønut@bone.com> wrote in message news:<7YadnZba-oP4L-bcRVn-uQ@comcast.com>...
>
>> > Let look at these pages ...
>
>> > http://developer.gnome.org/news/
>
>> > http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2004/awn203.phtml
>
>> > http://www.gimp.org/
>
>> > All have one thing in common - the last time they were updated was
>> > sometime June or July 2004.
>
>> > Are they DEAD ?!
>
>> Try this:
>
>> http://www.gimp.org/source/howtos/stable-cvs-get.html
>
>> and look at the dates in CVS and tell us if the code archive is in the same
>> state as the Web page.
>
> That's the thing ! Webpages are the FRONTLINE for the average users to
> find out what's going on for a certain thing they are concerned with,
> and if neither Abiword nor Gnome bother to update their webpages, many
> users may get a misleading conclusion that the project(s) they are
> concerned with is dead in the water.
>
> How many average users know about CVS ? The average users don't touch
> CVS thing because by most count, the code in CVS represent RAW and
> UNTESTED code, the code which is NOT READY FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION. So
> to expect the average users to poke in the CVS to see if anything is
> going on is just asking too much.
>
> I am a OpenSource advocate, but seeing how many of the opensource
> projects shooting themselves in their collective feet by committing
> trivial but important PR mistakes such as the non-update of webpages
> is really upsetting.
>
> I just chose two examples out of the many others I monitor. I know
> that most programmers aren't good at, or don't have the time to tinker
> with webpages. Therefore, should the Opensource supporters like us do
> something about this - like maybe link up with the authors of the
> software projects and get them to supply fresh (and accurate) info so
> we can help them update their webpages ?
>
> The lack of info problem has plagued the Opensource arena for too
> long, and it has been one of the most serious PR snafu that has
> weighted down the Opensource movement.
>
> If the public aren't updated with the latest going-on, how are they
> going to participate in the whole thing ?
When's the last time the Windows XP home page has been updated?
The home page shouldn't be updated until there is a new user-oriented
release of the product in question. June or July 2004 sounds perfectly
reasonable given as how new user-releases don't happen overnight.
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