Re: Re: Most suitable update mechanism (was Re: CVS dump of current SME...)

> Then why has the discussion been taken private? It hardly seems to be a
> good way to start off, particularly when you'll want the support of the
> people being excluded. Does this show what we can expect in the future?

George,

It was necessary to take organizational conversations private as 
everyone was running around talking about wild ideas and nothing was 
getting done.  Please be assured that 95% of what's being discussed 
off-list at this time is organizational in nature (e.g., how are we 
going to move the lists, what bug tracking are we going to use, what's 
our next move, how are we going to organize the troops, do we use 
sourceforge or don't we, etc, etc.)  There are lots of people that want 
stuff to do, but without some kind of organization, nothing will get 
done.    These types of things can't be done by simply type chatting in 
an open forum.

Now, you may disagree with all of the above and I certainly won't take 
offense to it.  Remember, this is a GPL project.  If you or anyone else 
wants to spin this off another direction.  Please feel free to do so at 
any time.   I can honestly say that it is no small undertaking to 
establish a venue for a GPL community of this type.  I think many would 
be very surprised at the number of hours that several individuals are 
donating to setting up an infrastructure at contribs.org for this community.

As a final point, I will reiterate a previous comment.  Devinfo is 
moving to contribs.org soon and will remain the primary venue for open 
source development dicussion of the SME Server.   Talk about the future 
of SME really hasn't even taken place yet.  Contribs is simply working 
to establish a place for these discussions to happen and development 
activities to take place.

Regards,

Greg Zartman







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