Re: battle-plan for 2.5 development

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Graham 
Percival <address@hidden> writes
> On 5-Nov-04, at 4:49 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > WEBSITE
> >
> > The current website is a lot better than we had; I'm glad it has some
> > interesting articles, and that it refreshes a lot (basically, for
> > every Lilypond release), but it could be much more the center of a
> > community.
>
> > For this reason, I think that lilypond.org should become a database
> > driven website, where users can log-in, post comments, contribute
> > articles and give the development team instant feedback on releases,
> > documentation, etc.
>
> What's wrong with the mailing lists?  They provide instant feedback
> on releases, documentation, comments, etc.  If somebody wants to
> commit and article but doesn't want to code the HTML himself (and
> doesn't want to use an editor -> HTML creator like OpenOffice), then
> I'll volunteer to edit their plaintext article into HTML.

While it's nice to have BOTH email AND a good website, taking an 
either/or approach will disenfranchise a lot of users. For example, a 
mailing list I'm on recently rehosted. Because my mail server is behind 
a NAT firewall, the mail-list server refuses to talk to it and I can no 
longer post.

The result is, I've just dropped off the radar because although there is 
also a website, I almost never go there. (Not many other people do, 
either, I don't think.)

A working email list is a damn sight better than a web forum, imnsho.

Cheers,
Wol
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