On 2001.05.02 15:32:12 -0400 markus.soell@... wrote:
> Hi Reed,
>
> > Of all the things the firebird project desperately needs, I'd put
> > a new web site near (or below) the bottom of the list.
>
> Hmm, interesting. I put it near the top, along with the organization
> question, just browse a little back to find the discussion about it.
>
> > I believe Pavel has done an excellent job so far, and if
> > there are problems with the firebird.sourceforge.net site, the the
> > proper course would be to bring them to his attention (in a
> > reasonable and constructive manner, of course).
>
> One question that has been subject to discussion is, what type of
> site we're all talking about. Pavel has done a site for developers
> and indeed that's what a site like the current one could be used for
> and so I dont want to contest the quality of Pavels job.
>
> But on the other hand, if the site should be not for developers but
> for the rest of the world, then I think this site is not good for
> that purpose. And in my opinion that's the type of site Firebird
> needs.
>
> I wrote a message about that earlier and to be short, here's the link:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IBDI/message/2554
>
> > It has been suggested that the firebird 'development' site
> > and 'user' site should be different, but I do not agree with this
> > at all.
>
> Ok, to avoid a long statement I'd say, simply look at what other OSS
> projects do, e.g. Apache.org. If you find on that site more about the
> development than a 2 lines "how to get involved" statement, let me
> know.

"yes, but"
I think the various apache projects may not be such great examples here
since as I understand it almost all the development is done by people paid
by eg IBM and sun to spend their time working on apache projects: this is
certainly the case for tomcat.

An example of highly successful oss project writeen entirely by volunteers
(I think, at least now noone's getting paid) is www.jboss.org, where there
is more for developers.

david jencks

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