--- In IBDI@y..., David Jencks <davidjencks@e...> wrote:

> "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

I just had a look at jboss.org and must say, I liked it a lot. I have
no problem with presenting information of interest for developers,
like how to get access to the CVS etc.

But still, the developers, also at jBoss, will not so much use that
website for their work, once they have their CVS client set up and
know where the "real" things actually are ;). The site gives indeed
quite a lot of information about the development, what mailing lists
exist and how to subscribe etc., but I think even those parts of the
site are mainly visited by people not (yet) involved in the project.

Anyway, I like it and have nothing against doing something like that
at all.

The jboss.org satisfies also all my criteria about how an OSS project
should be presented to the "rest of the world". Really very well done.

Regards
Markus