freshmeat, sourceforge

jfm3 jfm3 at mortmain.com
Mon Feb 12 22:18:41 CET 2001


I can certainly understand this.

Most Open Source projects successfully deal with the problem by having two
mailing lists, one for users and one for developers.  Noise on the
developer list increases only slightly.  Sourceforge gives email lists for
projects like these away for free.

On the plus side, your user base will increase, which if nothing else will
mean better field testing.

I am finding more and more people who are starting their own Open Source
software synthesis projects because they haven't found Pd or jMax.  When I
show them Pd they want to hit something to alleviate their frusteration.  
I myself wasted a lot of time writing a little MIDI programming
environment before I realised Pd was a viable alternative.  Posting to
Freshmeat or Sourceforge would eliminate this problem.

Nonetheless, I will respect what seems to be the wishes of the list and
not post about Pd.

(jfm3)

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lavallée Marc wrote:

> Richard Dobson a écrit :
> > 
> > Dunno about Freshmeat (well, I'm a vegetarian!)
> 
> Freshmeat, as its name says, is visited by a bunch or very hungry Linux
> newbies. Expect this mailing list to get flooded with very basic
> questions. That'd be a dangerous move.
> 
> Marc
> 




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