Re: Project status

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 10:30:45PM -0400, Joshua Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
> It all depends on how much work I see the project is getting completed. 
> The first time I had high hopes of getting this thing going, and everyone
> disappeared, except a select few, and no work was able to be done.  I am
> not doing that again...nor am I having any high expectations (or any
> expectations at all?) from the project.  If things start coming together
> again, I will have no argument in using the domain...right now I have a
> temp. site on the domain, and several individuals using the domain
> frequently...which is not a problem, but I am not going to shoot the
> domain at eric's server, or have eric shoot his domain at my server, etc.
> until things start coming together, and there is an actual need for the
> domain.

Whatever you choose to do with the domain is fine by me.  I just thought
it might be easier on all of us to have the development on one machine.

I recall bumping into you on IRC, where you made me aware that
bsdadvocacy.org actually existed, but never read anything on the list
about it and from our conversation, it sounded like you were taking care
of it by yourself.  You should have posted something if you wanted
assistance.

I've said it once and I'll say it again.  I, for one, am not about to
let this project die.  So don't let your hopes get dashed.  It may take
a while, but it ~will~ be done.

> I think if we are going to proceed further, we first need to dump this
> CORE bullshit for the time being, and just let the people who have the
> time/energy to help with a certain task, help.  Its fine to say "person A
> is in charge of this", etc. But it makes no sense delegating a task like
> web design to person A (not flaming anyone, just an example) when person A
> doesn't have the time/energy to complete the web design task in a timely
> manner...its like a vehicle assembly line...you can't have 10 people
> assembling the vehicles together at the start of the assembly line, if the
> painters aren't able to paint the vehicles at end of the assembly line. 
> Eventually all you have is chaos, and no productivity results from chaos.

I concur that having a CORE team has proven to stick in our collective
throats.  So, unless there are any objections, I would second your
motion.

Now, we need somebody to establish a framework for the bsdevents site.
All we need is a database (again, I personally don't care what we use,
though I would strongly recommend against MySQL) and some simple PHP
(based on Smarty) to enable users to enter and view events.  Anyone up
for the task?

-- 
Anthony Chavez                                               Daemon News
mailto:acc-XvSzoi6dgTOSihdK6806/[email protected]                     http://www.daemonnews.org/

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