Re: Had Mj2 Development stalled ... ?

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>>>>> "Chan" == Chan Wilson <[email protected]> writes:
    Chan> "Marc G. Fournier" <[email protected]> spaketh thusly on Wed, 07
    Chan> Feb 2007 18:49:02 -0400 about Re: Had Mj2 Development stalled
    Chan> ... ?...
    >> Does anyone on this list have 'web design abilities'??  If we are
    >> going to "market" this, we need two things:
    >> 
    >> 1. a proper, professional looking web site 2. a proper release of
    >> v1.0

    Chan> *bing!*

    Chan> I'll be tilting at this windmill called Majordomo again soon.
    Chan> What is high on my list regarding a 1.0 release is abstracting
    Chan> and simplifying the complexity and featureset of mj2 a bit for
    Chan> users and list admins.  It's daunting.

  No, don't change anything. Release it.

  The only important thing is that the "make domain" be runable without
a source tree.

    Chan> I'd like to see a better web interface, although I don't know
    Chan> what that would be just yet -- most users will be interacting
    Chan> via the web, hence their first impression should be favorable.
    Chan> Some sort of 'wizards' may prove useful here.

  The web interface is just fine, functionally.
  It needs a novice mode.  A wizard is usually a macro mode that does
the right thing for windows things that are too complicated to do
directly. We don't have that problem, we just have too many options
presented to novices.

  https://www.pubsoft.org/pubsoft.py/project?proj=mj2-release

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