Re: Development news

[Patrick Strasser]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    People need to see at first that work is
>    going on. Then there would be no more questions like "Is someone
>    working on it", "your last news entry is half a year old, are you
>    dead?", <your favorite still-alive-nag>.
>
> Having development news entries wouldn't help with that at all.  The
> "is someone working on this" question is normal in any project; and
> should be asked! 

I meant "Is someone working on the Hurd at all?".
From your answer I read you understood "I someone working on [specific 
feature]?".
The later should of course be asked.  But That's not what I meant.

>    Moreover, HTML is more beautiful than plain text in a graphical
>    browser.
>
> And you always have access to the source code, but not to a web
> browser.  

No argument.  This renders to lynx|links|w3m|<text browser> vs. cvs.
I'm speaking for people who want to have it handy and nice when looking 
for some information.  That means graphical hypertext to me atm., or in 
other words: HTML + CSS viewed with IE.
I think of the Hurd front page the most important "marketing tool".  It 
would be nice to see the access stats and find out what people visit the 
Hurd pages at gnu.org.  I always had the impression that lots of people 
watch the Hurd very  closely.  Like the mailing list.  We have a very 
high reader/contributor ratio [1]. Unfortunately the stats for mail are 
gone with Nils Lohner.
They are watching us!  That's our chance!

I could happily live with some people trying to run the Hurd just 
because of the good impression they had looking at the pages.

> Recall also that some people don't use the web at all, or
> not very frequently.

I'm not talking about that people.

[1] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/debian-hurd-200007/msg00028.html

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