Hi River,
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 7:37 AM, River Tarnell <
river(a)loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk> wrote:
the problem is that having the infrastructure doesn't make people use it.
i've
been trying to encourage people to move popular projects to stable and
decouple
them from a single maintainer, but i can't force people to do it, and most
people don't have the time or inclination.
i don't think "banning" single-maintainer projects will accomplish
anything.
most popular tools started off as something small written by one person,
and if
we don't allow people to write things themselves, how will these tools
develop?
if we were to do this, all that would happen is there would be no tools
left.
I agree with you on both counts, but I have a suggestion.
Do you think it might be possible to encourage people to use the
infrastructure more? My thinking here is to make it easier for multi-user
projects and make it slightly more annoying for single user ones. This could
be something like a longer waiting time for (one week vs. couple days) to
get migrated to the stable server. Or it could be something in the STABLE
signup form, where it says "if I don't respond within 30 days, my project
can have a maintainer added at the discretion of the toolserver admins". (30
days here was just arbitrary ... the important thing is there is some limit
to the loss of contact).
Just putting an idea out there, as I do see both sides of the equation.
Comments?
Gerald