Re: Proposal: Communications policy

2009/2/13 St.Ego <[email protected]>:
> jalal wrote:
>> There are two big problems with using the forums:
>> 1. There is no way to see what threads are new since the last visit.
>> 2. It gives the impression that the project is dead (or in terminal decline).
>>
>> I think the idea to use Google Groups is probably the best one.
>>
>> cheers
>> jalal
>
> How do you figure #2? The only reason that might seem dead (to me) is
> the lack of participation in the past, which would be rectified by using
> it as primary again.

Well, that may happen. At present it looks like nothing much has
happened over the last few months.

The last couple of times I bid for a job and mentioned using Xaraya,
the lack of activity on the forums was one of the reasons used that
the project was moribund and therefore not acceptable as a production
platform.

(The other reasons were that there were no programmers mentioned on
the biogs page, so they had presumably left, and that V1.x had been
released and immediately dropped in favour of V2.0, therefore
indicating that the V1.x code was crap and not suitable for production
use).

I've since moved on to Drupal and Wordpress (depending on the needs)
but I like Xaraya and would like to see it become successful... it
deserves it as it is a good codebase.