Re: Hi-bye..

Gah.

    Yes, this stuff needs to be discussed. Right now, I'm not in a 
position to do so...which, I suppose, is no small part of the problem. 
The really irritating thing is that I took on EB maintainership swearing 
solemnly to myself that I would never let it stagnate like this...

    I'd love to chat to you sometime, but I'm not really online at all 
at the moment - email's the best way of reaching me. Do yell...but now 
I'm off. Again. Lectures tomorrow, v early.

Meredydd

Karine Proot wrote:

>[Sorry for the broken thread, my usual address is blacklisted!]
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>On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 00:33 +0100, Meredydd Luff wrote:
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>>Yo all.
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>>I'm at university.
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>>It rocks.
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>Great to know that :)
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>>It also involves OBSCENE amounts of work, and lectures haven't even 
>>started yet. In addition, the laptop's died and I'm waiting for a new 
>>one. Don't go away, but don't expect much out of me for the next couple 
>>of weeks. Wish me luck!
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>OK.
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>It seems we are a group of people with not much time to give to eb-lite.
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>Those days I am wondering whether I should go on with ebnc, or go
>hacking elsewhere. Please don't feel like I'm setting an ultimatum, I
>just want to express my latest thoughts and see what will come out of
>it.
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>I know I don't contribute that much myself. The problem is, I need some
>'community-motivation'. Some kind of keep-in-touch, to know I'm part of
>a team going somewhere together. Then maybe I'm not in the right place,
>I only wander on what I though was the official project IRC channel, and
>we are 3 zombies here (well, on the hours I'm there). So far there is
>only one person talking with me about eb-lite: Craig West. Would I have
>really felt alone, I would have left.
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>I am not blaming anyone, there is no mandatory duty and I don't want
>any. If I'm the only one feeling like that (everyone has very little
>time to give and is happy with the way things are, contributing each bit
>when they can), then right, eb-lite is just not giving back to me what I
>expected.
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>I can't even answer questions like: why are we still in alpha? what do
>we need to get to beta? what do we need to get to release? is one (or
>more than one) of us ready to take the burden that making a release
>means, so the others could feel motivated and really contribute as much
>as they can, achieving goals?
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>I am about to (once again) rewrite the drawing part of ebnc, and this is
>a big task. I don't know if this is needed to be able to get to release,
>or if I should concentrate on features lacking in ebnc, or if I should
>try to make it work on more terms, ... you get the idea. Who do I turn
>to? I'm near the point where I think that what I'm doing will be totally
>forgotten in the end (it's not like eb-lite is the only IM application).
>I still do think there is a great idea behind it.
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>So, without any team-gathering (even if it was only a 2-hours range per
>week, but *something*) where we can all see who is eb-lite and where
>it's going, and without any release goal (like a list of must-do,
>should-do, may-do - but maybe I missed something on the website or on
>the list?), I don't have the will to give my little spare time to eb-
>lite.
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>Looking forward to your comments,
>Karine.
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